Since Canonical offers support for Karmic until April 2011, I don't think they have the choice but to fix things of this importance. Upgrading to Lucid right away is not a very good idea for most users either, since it's gonna bring with it a truckload of new bugs, as happens with each release, including the last LTS. It's like picking between Scylla and Charybdis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla_and_Charybdis
Now instead of pushing each version of Ubuntu as Linux for Humans and all the other hype, I think non-LTS versions should receive a permanent Beta label, and support for them should be deprecated as soon as the next version arrives. This is basically what happens already, so why not make it official? On the other hand the LTS version should receive extra work to be stable *on release*, and release should be delayed for up to three months is it still has critical bugs on popular hardware, and stuff like that. In the meanwhile, if you offer support, try to give at least equivalent support as Microsoft... they're still supporting Windows XP (how old is that?) for security, and they certainly wouldn't let unpatched a flaw that prevents you from changing your password: imagine the uproar! -- [users-admin] Password is reset to old value when it's been changed by running about-me https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490093 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-tools in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
