Dear developpers, Since the release, I am using only Etch, and there something frustrating in the fact that discovering and reporting minor problems is not very helpful.
What could be the other obvious points of information ? For example, here are the kind of issues I experienced: - Japanese input systems can crash iceweasel or distrub nautilus depending how they are invoked. - apt-get source does not honor the -t option. - DRI can crash Xorg on some powermacs with some ATI cards, disabling it solves the problem. - emacs is not configured by default to use han characters, but can. - by default, /etc/motd is not the Message Of The Day anymore, since changes are lost on reboot and /etc/motd is not automatically updated when /etc/motd.tail is modified. - IBM does not provide anymore the java tarballs supported by java-package. - KDE creates a bogus trashcan on GNOME desktop. Under the current policy, not all fixes to these problems would make it in a point release, but since the list is likely to grow longer and longer with time, I am really wondering if there is a better way to inform the users of that kind of issues, if possible a priori. Among the possibilities : - An Etch-centric view of the BTS (user friendly), - More updates to the release notes, - Documentation updates (BUGS section in the manpages) Other ideas ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
