Re: Gnome bug 94684
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 07:04:52PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> >>>> "CW" == Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>
> CW> Jules Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk> writes:
> >> Programs shouldn't gratuitously break configurations which worked.
> >> When woody is released, and people upgrade en masse to it, they will
> >> want their configurations to carry on working.
>
> CW> In my experience, GNOME has had this problem since version 1.0; almost
> CW> every time I've upgraded, something has broken. Most of the time I've
> CW> just given up and nuked ~/.gnome and ~/.gnome-private, and then
> CW> recreated my desktop configuration.
>
> CW> It doesn't seem very reasonable to expect the Debian packagers to try
> CW> to fix upstream bugs like this.
>
> Ha, somebody understand me :)
In which case, it's perfectly reasonable to just leave the bug open
and not fix it. But don't close it. And do forward it upstream.
Jules
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