On 28/03/13 12:24, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> [2013-03-28 12:08]: > >> On 03/28/2013 11:47 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: >>> Would you provide a guarantee to all users of wheezy that you will pay >>> for their laptop repair if this issue causes damage? >> Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent >> permitted by applicable law.
Of course this is valid in a legal sense - but faults do impact the public perception of the Debian brand. Think about it another way - if you put Debian on a friend's laptop and they suffer with this issue, would you be quoting that clause in the license for them? >>> This problem happens regularly enough that Debian should not be promoted >>> for laptops if it is not taken seriously as an RC issue. Users will get >>> a very bad impression if basic things like this aren't working in a >>> stable release. >> I have heard of that problem for the very first time now and I have >> been using Debian on a laptop since around 2004, on various machines >> like the Thinkpad 240X, X40, T42, T60, T23. There are a long list of issues, many just under the RC threshold, against the gnome-power-manager package: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=gnome-power-manager > I have experienced suspend problems on X61s, X201 and X220 with squeeze > and wheezy regularily. Most of the times it was hald that needed to be > restarted which is now done regularily upon wakeup on my notebooks. Can you make any suggestion how we can make this more stable for non-technical users of wheezy? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51542a70.1040...@pocock.com.au
