Well, Feisty was not EOL in May when I posted this bug. Meaning no disrespect, but I post a fair number of bugs that sit un-looked-at for months or even years, and then someone comes along and says in effect, "hey, bozo, that's an old release, how dare you talk to us about it? Update right away and test with the latest" (you were not that rude). I am in a production environment and we cannot afford more than annual downtime for updates and getting everything to work again, so we depend on the length of release lifetimes in Ubuntu.
Unfortunately, so far for us, it's a rarity for a posted bug to be fixed during the supposed support lifetime of a release. This leads us to wonder what the lifetime declaration means. The releases are not stable when they come out, and demonstrable bugs don't get fixed when reported. When they are fixed it is in future releases, and they are not backported unless they are security bugs. So, releases do not become stable, either. One of my employees, Carthik Sharma, is also an Ubuntu developer, and he was very surprised at how poorly Ubuntu actually works out here in the field. This is not to say another release is better, but that there is a long way to go to reach the stated goals, enough that a modified approach might be in order. I know this isn't the right forum in which to address this, and I'd appreciate it if you could direct me to the right one. I also know that I am not paying you for support, but I do both report bugs myself and pay the salary of one of your developers (who has been helpful in combatting these problems, of which this bug has been the least). So, on to the business at hand... 1. please look at the date of the original posting and consider whether the release was EOL when posted, and give the poster a break if it wasn't, 2. we updated to 8.04 in late summer, and I can confirm both that the problem is gone and the ps2pdf now converts broken PDFs into fixed ones. Thanks! --jh-- -- ps2pdf on firefox ps file makes file w/ no cut-and-paste https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226930 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
