Hi Alan! On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:01:12PM +0000, Alan Curry wrote: > I reported a bug in the stable release. It's not fixed until it's fixed in > the stable release. > > But you're going to leave it unfixed for a year or three, while pretending > that it doesn't exist. > > This is not nice.
I’m sorry, and I can see why you feel this way, but this is how stable
works, and for a good reason. See Section 5.5.1 of the Debian
Developer’s Reference:
“Basically, a package should only be uploaded to stable if one of the
following happens:
* a truly critical functionality problem
* the package becomes uninstallable
* a released architecture lacks the package
[…]
Changing anything else in the package that isn't important is
discouraged, because even trivial fixes can cause bugs later on.”
<http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable>
This bug is clearly none of these, particularly since a very simple
workaround exists with “loadkeys defkeymap”.
Best,
Michael
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