On 28/12/12 15:31, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 02:11:14PM +0000, AG wrote:
I may be stepping all over some or other netiquette, for which I
apologise.
I don't see how; your message to this list wasn't cross-posted
That's OK then.
I thought that the Debian user community might want to be aware of
the response from one of the Amarok team I received when asking
about a problem I had with Amarok in Squeeze playing two (or more)
tracks simultaneously.
Why?
Simply because the Amarok folk (or Myriam anyway) (a) advocates dropping
Debian in favour of a derived distro with a faster release cycle and (b)
expects people to update their system to match Amarok releases, when the
software is buggy in a past release. As I replied in my original post -
that's like the tail wagging the dog.
I just don't think that Myriam's response was at all helpful - and
say as much - and for her to propose that I change my distro in
order to match Amarok's release cycles is quite absurd.
Her response was pretty good compared to some other responses I've seen
regarding bugs in old (as far as the developers are concerned) software.
Usually, its something like: Upgrade to latest version from cvs and see
if bug is still present.
Well, that's hardly a justification or an excuse, especially if
developers give a hoot about their user base.
Sometimes you just get a rude remark when they realise you aren't
running the latest version.
Again, which begs the question. Yes, of course new releases fix older
bugs, but to just dismiss an older version that was released as okay at
the time by blithely suggesting that one upgrades misses the point.