On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:56:44 -0500 (CDT) "Timothy Legg" <debianu...@timothylegg.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I wish to bring up something that bothers me. > > I just installed a stable Debian package that advertises to perform > so many wonderful tasks, but in reality, it does little more than > provide an attractive graphical interface for a segmentation fault.
Have you: 1) Filed a bug report? 2) Checked if the newer fixed version is in unstable? 3) If (2), have you tried contributing a backport for Lenny? 4) If not (2), have you tried contributing a newer version to unstable? Open source software is not about some mysterious distant group of people who give you good things. It is about every irritated user who finds something wrong fixing it so that no one else ever has to fix it again. In the world of closed source software, the users can't fix problems for each other. In the world of open source, they can. Phrased differently, an open source project is you, it isn't them. If there is a problem, you have as much opportunity (and indeed responsibility) for fixing it as anyone else. Rather than waiting for someone else to fix this for you, fix it for everyone. At the very least, file a bug report. -- Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100818151047.72863...@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com
