Borden Rhodes <j...@bordenrhodes.com> writes: > I was very surprised when they released Stretch as I didn't find > anything 'stable' about the packages that I was using.
My reply was primarily addressing that statement: you were surprised that Stretch, with the problems you describe, was released. Borden Rhodes <j...@bordenrhodes.com> writes: > Thank you for your response, Ben, > > > What response did you get to the bug reports you filed from the > > problems you encountered? > > One example includes an X regression […] To my knowledge, it's still > broken in testing […] (#863532). Thanks. Do you have an understanding, from that discussion, why that specific bug remained unresolved in Stretch? > Then there are the issues with the upgrade to KDE 5, which aren't > Debian's fault […] These are all upstream bugs that I've tried to > report. Are there bug reports in Debian that would show why the package should not be released with those bugs? > Ironically, both reportbug and reportbug-ng are broken on my system! > The former's GTK interface doesn't load Sorry to learn that. Does the text-only interface work well enough to report bugs? > I also ran into an issue […] I just uninstalled them and continued on. I think you can see from that, why the Debian release team can't be expected to know that a package is unsuitable for release, if people's experience with a bug are not recorded in a bug report :-) -- \ “A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of | `\ widths.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney
