On Thursday 13 November 2008 05:13, Andrew Sayers wrote: > Sarah - this should make sense on its own, but it builds on an idea I > suggested in > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2008-November/006250 >.html > > which you might provide a little background to this post. > > > 3) There are plenty of other hardware regressions by which I am affected > > and I feel like these should be a bit more acknowledged by developers. > > Because I can't be the only one." > > > > What I'd like to raise - how does one write such a database, when there > > is no clear-cut answer on whether this card, with this driver, works? > > Since we're talking about regressions here, one solution would be to > make downgrading as easy as upgrading, and to request an optional > hardware profile immediately before a user up/downgrades. Spotting > problematic hardware then becomes a relatively simple statistical > problem: when a user gives their hardware profile ready for an upgrade, > they can be informed "you have <device X>, users with <device X> were n% > more likely than average to downgrade. Are you sure you want to > continue?". >
Downgrading an entire system is never going to be reliable. It might be possible to take a snapshot of the system onto a suitable storage medium that one could restore to if needed. Scott K -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
