On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 08:03 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> it's a request to add new code to handle cases not working now so yes
> it's a feature request
It is a request to add new code to handle an error in design
specifications. One should not call a binary from desktop code without
ensuring that the binary is already installed. This is a feature that
already exists in other software, such as the file sharing software
which will install Samba and what not when the user enables the feature
and it's not already installed.
Presumably (speaking as a programmer) the same sort of code can be used
here. It seems to me that if it has not already been factored into its
own thing, that it should so that other applications can easily benefit
from it.
However, I must say that I disagree with this being categorized as
"wishlist". I know that an average user would disagree, as well,
because it's a cryptic error message that is received, not some sort of
graceful message saying, "Oops, you need to install package X", it just
says that it failed to execute cryptsetup because of no such file or
directory. That doesn't help people at all. This is a bug, albeit a
design bug, but it is a bug nonetheless. That is, it is a defect.
I'm not going to argue the point anymore, because I know that at this
point it's not likely to change. I just thought that user
interface/user experience was something a little more important than
"wishlist", and I was under the impression that the bug tracking
software existed so that defects would be tracked as they were and not
unnecessarily demoted. It would be more useful to make this a low or
medium priority bug. Probably ideally, it could be classified as a
low-priority, medium severity issue, but Launchpad does not permit that.
However, classifying it as a wishlist item just trivializes the bug to
an end-user. I'm glad that I reported it, and not my mother or my
grandmother.
--- Mike
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Should auto-install cryptsetup when not present and encrypted media inserted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/596165
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