Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-28 Thread David Wright
On Mon 20 Apr 2020 at 00:11:08 (-0700), Ihor Antonov wrote: > On Sunday, 19 April 2020 23:30:43 PDT Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 19 apr 20, 13:28:57, Ihor Antonov wrote: > > > Reporting from Debian Sid, everything is quite stable. I do run ZFS on > > > root > > > and make snapshots prior to big

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-20 Thread Ihor Antonov
On Sunday, 19 April 2020 23:30:43 PDT Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 19 apr 20, 13:28:57, Ihor Antonov wrote: > > Reporting from Debian Sid, everything is quite stable. I do run ZFS on > > root > > and make snapshots prior to big upgrades as a pre-caution, but so far > > I did not have a reason to

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 apr 20, 13:28:57, Ihor Antonov wrote: > > Reporting from Debian Sid, everything is quite stable. I do run ZFS on root > and make snapshots prior to big upgrades as a pre-caution, but so far > I did not have a reason to revert anything. It's just a matter of time. Even if Debian does

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 20/4/20 12:26 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 19 apr 20, 09:43:46, Carl Fink wrote: So this has bugged me every time I run Debian Stable: you find a bug. You try to report it, and are told not to bother because there's a newer version. By? I'm guessing you mean the standard request from re

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread David Wright
On Sun 19 Apr 2020 at 09:43:46 (-0400), Carl Fink wrote: > So this has bugged me every time I run Debian Stable: you find a bug. You > try to report it, and are told not to bother because there's a newer > version. There is no way to install the newer version without manually > fiddling with pointl

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread riveravaldez
On 4/19/20, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 19 apr 20, 09:43:46, Carl Fink wrote: >> So this has bugged me every time I run Debian Stable: you find a bug. You >> try to report it, and are told not to bother because there's a newer >> version. > > By? I'm guessing you mean the standard request from

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Ihor Antonov
On Sunday, 19 April 2020 07:26:31 PDT Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 19 apr 20, 09:43:46, Carl Fink wrote: > > So this has bugged me every time I run Debian Stable: you find a bug. You > > try to report it, and are told not to bother because there's a newer > > version. > > By? I'm guessing you me

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, 2020-04-19 at 10:27 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 09:51:02AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > > What applications do you feel aren't up-to-date enough for your liking? > > I'm genuinely curious. > > Mr. Heskett's comments made me want to tell him how to lower the CPU us

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:51:02 -0400 Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Sun, 2020-04-19 at 09:43 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script that > > says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fixed. Try Testing." Seriously, that's > > literally the Debian p

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 09:51:02AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > What applications do you feel aren't up-to-date enough for your liking? > I'm genuinely curious. Mr. Heskett's comments made me want to tell him how to lower the CPU usage of BOINC. However, boinc-manager in Stable, at least on my s

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 apr 20, 09:43:46, Carl Fink wrote: > So this has bugged me every time I run Debian Stable: you find a bug. You > try to report it, and are told not to bother because there's a newer > version. By? I'm guessing you mean the standard request from reportbug to try a newer version. > Why

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, 2020-04-19 at 09:43 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script that > says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fixed. Try Testing." Seriously, that's > literally the Debian policy, that only security fixes are done in Stable. I agree with