Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-28 Thread David Wright
On Mon 20 Apr 2020 at 00:11:08 (-0700), Ihor Antonov wrote: > On Sunday, 19 April 2020 23:30:43 PDT Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 19 apr 20, 13:28:57, Ihor Antonov wrote: > > > Reporting from Debian Sid, everything is quite stable. I do run ZFS on > > > root > > > and make snapshots prior to big

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-20 Thread Ihor Antonov
On Sunday, 19 April 2020 23:30:43 PDT Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 19 apr 20, 13:28:57, Ihor Antonov wrote: > > Reporting from Debian Sid, everything is quite stable. I do run ZFS on > > root > > and make snapshots prior to big upgrades as a pre-caution, but so far > > I did not have a reason to

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 apr 20, 13:28:57, Ihor Antonov wrote: > > Reporting from Debian Sid, everything is quite stable. I do run ZFS on root > and make snapshots prior to big upgrades as a pre-caution, but so far > I did not have a reason to revert anything. It's just a matter of time. Even if Debian does

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Keith Bainbridge
quest from reportbug to try a newer version. Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script that says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fixed. Try Testing." Seriously, that's literally the Debian policy, that only security fixes are done in Stable.

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread David Wright
gt; fiddling with pointlessly arcane configuration files that are sort of > documented > if you squint. > > (Yes, the pun on "bug" is deliberate.) > > Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script that > says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are nev

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread riveravaldez
ng you mean the standard request from reportbug to try a > newer version. > >> Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script >> that >> says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fixed. Try Testing." Seriously, >> that's >> lit

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Ihor Antonov
> > By? I'm guessing you mean the standard request from reportbug to try a > newer version. > > > Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script > > that > > says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fixed. Try Testing." Seriously, &g

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, 2020-04-19 at 10:27 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 09:51:02AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > > What applications do you feel aren't up-to-date enough for your liking? > > I'm genuinely curious. > > Mr. Heskett's comments made me want to tell him how to lower the CPU us

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:51:02 -0400 Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Sun, 2020-04-19 at 09:43 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script that > > says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fixed. Try Testing." Seriously, that&#

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 09:51:02AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > What applications do you feel aren't up-to-date enough for your liking? > I'm genuinely curious. Mr. Heskett's comments made me want to tell him how to lower the CPU usage of BOINC. However, boinc-manager in Stable, at least on my s

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
er version. > Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script that > says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fixed. Try Testing." Seriously, that's > literally the Debian policy, that only security fixes are done in Stable. Actually bugs of severity &

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, 2020-04-19 at 09:43 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script that > says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fixed. Try Testing." Seriously, that's > literally the Debian policy, that only security fixes are done

Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Carl Fink
ed if you squint. (Yes, the pun on "bug" is deliberate.) Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script that says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fixed. Try Testing." Seriously, that's literally the Debian policy, that only security fixes are done i

Re: bugs in stable ?

2004-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 06:59:10PM -0400, xavier wrote: > On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:44:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > This is being worked on (by me) in the bug tracking system. It's not an > > easy task, and not well-solved by tags. > > Thanks a lot, I guess you think that's an issue too. >

Re: bugs in stable ?

2004-05-02 Thread xavier
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:44:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > This is being worked on (by me) in the bug tracking system. It's not an > easy task, and not well-solved by tags. > Thanks a lot, I guess you think that's an issue too. Although I perfectly understand it is a hard problem to sol

Re: bugs in stable ?

2004-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 06:34:18PM -0400, xavier wrote: > However, when there is a problem on a package in stable which > is not important enough to be updated, the package stays > as-is and information about this bug is difficult to retrieve. > > That the package doesn't change is fine with me,

bugs in stable ?

2004-05-02 Thread xavier
Hello, I use debian stable on a couple servers, and testing/unstable on my workstations. works great. The security updates are nice on both stable and unstable. debian-security-announce is wonderful. (did i mention apt-get yet ? ;-) However, when there is a problem on a package in stable whic