On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:05:56AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > as a long-time friend and user of Debian, I need to rant slightly here. > I am currently running three Debian Desktops, without any problem, until > Etch hit the streets. Now, after upgrade, none of them works / worked > properly any more. Not that the things were minor: printing failed to a > huge bug in lpr (#422177), which forgot to install the module for > parallel port.
As Andrew notes, this is an intersection of two increasingly minority configurations: parallel printers, and BSD lpr. Not that I like CUPS, but it is what gets set up by default on desktop systems these days, and we should probably think about having it replace lpr in terms of package priorities. Anyway, this is a bug in a specific package. The QA team isn't responsible for finding all bugs in individual packages; ask the maintainer of the lpr package why it wasn't noticed before release... > Nvidia legacy is broken, actually preventing me from > using that system at all (#423592). This is a bug report filed on a package that's not in etch. Not sure what you would expect the QA team to do about it. > My individual settings for xfce4 are > completely lost, actually making it impossible to use xfce4 with the old > settings; since they prevent the xfce4 menu from appearing. Not something that I ever like to see, but it's not at all unheard of for upstream changes to invalidate user configurations from previous versions without providing an upgrade path. Debian doesn't have the resources to compensate for every upstream who leaves their users in the lurch like this, sorry. > I really wonder where in here QA has happened ... Wherever the users who cared enough to test etch before the release made it happen. I'm sorry if that means there are use cases of concern to you that weren't addressed by this process, but the only way to be totally certain a release will meet your particular needs is to participate in testing it beforehand. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
