Hi,
On 9/9/07, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I don't have Gutsy or Fiesty loaded.
That's not an issue you know. Well if you want updated packages you have to upgrade or build it yourself and hopefully they have been fixed. Again if not, file a bug report.
This is the most hilarious statement ever! What is this?Utopia? Please do show me a software ( free or non-free ) without any bugs. I wonder why they ever create bugzilla or trac or any bug tracking software. And btw, unknown bugs *are* bugs.
It is not hilarious when M$ Office multi-user license will be procured, in the new machines that will be supplied, due to the critical nature of the work. I don't expect buggy packages to be available on repos even after newer versions are out.
Please try to understand that bugs are *always* there in software. Question is : are they known issues or unknown issues? Now if you think you found an bug please file a bug report. Somebody will fix it, and some future release will have one less bug.
And just because a application/software doesnot crash for you or you don't see something quirky while using it doesnot mean that it doesnot have any bugs. Thats such a false belief. If that was true, all distros would have repo full of bug-free software which is completely untrue or what is the point of exsistence of Ubuntu launchpad/bug tracking application or OpenSuse bugzilla or Fedora's bugzilla and similarly such mechanism for various distros.
Developers write the software, they do testing but they can't possibly test all usage paths of random user(s). When a certain user bumps into such a path that crashes the application or something unhappy happens to the software, and if it can reproduced the user is expected to submit a bug report. Developer(s) can look into it then but he surely can't do anything if he doesn't know about the existence of the issue which is completely possible because of different environment, usage paths et al.
BTW, most M$ users who use non-licensed copies, are using software copies that are quite some years old, they have no access to updates, yet they hardly find any problems or bugs in their software and are happily using them.
I have nothing at all to say to above statement.
Cheers!
Pradeepto