Re: Reporting usability problems: please be more tolerant when you triage bugs!

2009-07-23 Thread Andrew Sayers
Hi Vincenzo, You might have more luck if you describe your changes as feature requests. Whether or not you personally think they're bugs, calling them new features should avoid the "always been that way" reaction from developers. You might also want to try helping out with the "improved me to

Re: The google custom search - perhaps it went there by itself?

2009-07-27 Thread Andrew Sayers
Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > The fact that there is nobody willing to reply (I posted a similar > message one year ago, so this is certainly not a matter of time) can > mean only two things: > > 1) on this list, nobody knows the answer. I think this is likely. Then, > the custom search should be r

Downgrading packages after removing a repository

2009-08-01 Thread Andrew Sayers
I've found a bug (or maybe it's a feature request) in apt (or maybe it's in software-properties-gtk). I'd like to get people's opinions about where this is best reported, and what the report should say. When you add a repository to your computer, then remove that repository, it's not obvious h

Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository

2009-08-04 Thread Andrew Sayers
You make a good point about breakage when packages are downgraded. But it seems a little disingenuous for us to bend over backwards to make unsupported upgrades possible (adding a "software sources" menu item, putting PPAs in Launchpad, creating /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and so on), then for us

Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository

2009-08-05 Thread Andrew Sayers
Michael Bienia wrote: > Indepenent of how hard you make it to break an installation, there will > be someone who managed to break it nonetheless and expects from you to > unbreak it. And at the same time you will annoy experienced users who > know what they are doing. I don't follow this part. C

Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository

2009-08-05 Thread Andrew Sayers
Michael Bienia wrote: > On 2009-08-05 12:55:04 +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: >> Michael Bienia wrote: >> >>> Indepenent of how hard you make it to break an installation, there will >>> be someone who managed to break it nonetheless and expects from you to >>

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