Re: What's wrong with Ubuntu's policy?

2009-05-22 Thread Martin Pitt
Markus Hitter [2009-05-21 22:34 +0200]: Obviously, they trust them selves to reliably avoid regressions and trust their customers not to complain about new features. As I said, you cannot have a regression _by definition_ if you ship a new machine with that backported stuff preinstalled. Of

Re: What's wrong with Ubuntu's policy?

2009-05-22 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 22.05.2009 um 08:23 schrieb Martin Pitt: As I said, you cannot have a regression _by definition_ if you ship a new machine with that backported stuff preinstalled. Of course. Of course I don't know whether they inflict those updates to earlier customers as well. They sell the machine

Re: What's wrong with Ubuntu's policy?

2009-05-22 Thread Didier Roche
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote: Am 22.05.2009 um 08:23 schrieb Martin Pitt: As I said, you cannot have a regression _by definition_ if you ship a new machine with that backported stuff preinstalled. Of course. Of course I don't know whether they

Re: What's wrong with Ubuntu's policy?

2009-05-22 Thread Daniel Chen
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote: In my opinion, this is disappointing. Very disappointing. What is wrong with Ubuntu's release/fix/backport strategy for such a thing to happen? Downstreams should feel free to adopt whatever policies suit them. (Think

tomcat package bug

2009-05-22 Thread Michael A. Repucci
I'm experiencing a little bug in the way Tomcat (either 5.5 or 6) functions. I've posted more about this on the Ubuntu forums ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1166995). I'd love to contribute to solving the problem, but I'm rather new to Tomcat. So, instead, I hope this note will help

Re: What's wrong with Ubuntu's policy?

2009-05-22 Thread Evan R. Murphy
2009/5/21 Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de: [snip]  From the article: We go the extra mile in double qualifying all updates (that one would see in stock 8.10 and 9.04) and only publish those that are rock-stable. To me, this sounds much like a fork of Ubuntu, just without a new name. Stick

tsclient printer redirection patch

2009-05-22 Thread Joseph Miller
I have posted a patch at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tsclient/+bug/233784 and your email is listed for the maintainers. Please add my patch as soon as it's convenient or tell me what I need to do to get this included. The drive redirection patch is included in the Ubuntu distro,

Epson iscan and plugins

2009-05-22 Thread Martin Owens
Hello all, I had to compile and install the epson iscan software (LGPL) for ubuntu since the debs provided by the manufacturer are specific for debian. Like a good dev I made the ubuntu debs available in my repository (main problem, scripts assume sh is bash, all fixed) I also compiled a deb for