On Vi, 18 apr 14, 10:52:14, wobbly-hs wrote: > > My question is seeking to understand the criteria on which a fix is moved down > to stable. I think it is likely if the problem were not that printing doesn't > work but that web servers don't work, it would be fixed in stable overnight. > So why is printing given second class treatment? Is it a case yet again of > "debian is not for desktop users?" I have seen > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable > this seems to suggest that once something breaks on a stable desktop it will > only be fixed if the bug risks crashing the whole system.
A bug doesn't have to be that serious to be fixed, but there are additional criteria, like how big an impact does it have, how big/complex is the patch to fix it, etc. You might want to contact the package maintainer and ask (simply write to the bug). Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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