> > The fix is in the development release (Lucid), not backported to > > Karmic. > > Making it useless to the majority of Ubuntu users, who are not all on > Lucid and many of whom will not be upgrading to Lucid for some time... > (need to wait for bugfxes to be released, wontfixes to be worked > aroud, and spuriously removed hardware support to be added back > in...etc)
You could apply your argument to the fix of every bug, not just this one. It's not practical in terms of manpower to fix a bug for all the versions. The tone of your comment suggests you know this. -- Installing samba gives spurious "account_policy_get failed" messages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24741 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs