Thanks for your reply, Ray. So, I guess my assumption that these problems are products of the beta-nature of Sid is correct in your view?
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote: > I can't comment on your specific problem, but at least I should clarify > what I meant by "promptly". I didn't mean instantly. Realistically, it > takes a day or so for the bug to be identified, and another day or so for > it to be fixed ... assuming it is routine, not a serious upstream problem, > or a major incompatibility related to a shared-library change. These > routine bugs are often just delayed recompiles, situations in which the > source needs no actual changes, but the binary simply needs to be > recompiled against a new set of library headers. I thought I recalled you saying at some point that you had a problem with something one day and next morning it was already fixed. This is probably what I had in mind when I said "promptly." > At the Debian site (start at www.debian.org and follow obvious links), I > don't see any new "important" or "grave" bugs reported for mozilla-browser. > Segfaults usually mean library mismatches in practice, so I'd wait a day or > so and try another update/upgrade. (There was an old, reportedly fixed, > problem with mozilla and E-Bay, but it looks different from yours.) Ok. Thanks for checking that for me. > You might consider, in circumstances like this, filing bug reports at the > Debian site. I looked into doing that using the reportbug program. Though they obviously try to make it as easy as possible for new users, having to look through 576 bug reports (the number of reports for mozilla-browser) to see if any match my problem exceeds the level of engagement I can offer to the Debian project at the moment (I'll look into more active involvement when I retire from my main work in a few decades though). Unless there's some simpler, less involved way of submitting bug reports, I'm afraid I'll have to let them discover and fix the problem without my input. I'll just hope that's soon. Maybe meantime I guess I could always boot Knoppix when I need to do some graphical browsing (yes, sort of a sad jest). > PS - the current version of firefox-mozilla is 0.9.1-4, not (as you write > it) 9.1-4. The leading 0. part indicates, as is customary, that it is an > alpha package, not yet version 1.0. So its being buggy should be no > surprise, and is at least partly an upstream issue, not a Debian one. Yeah. I guess I was assuming everyone knew that Firefox was still in beta, so I left off the 0. Prior to 0.8, I had few stability problems with Firefox/Firebird/Phoenix. Some keyboard input problems in 0.6 IIRC, but I think that's about as bad as it got. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
