Re: FWD: RMS and Debian on his Toshiba
Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
> As another example of the problems that ridged update scheme to Debian
> can cause, on the latest Toshiba's the Fn key has a vicious tendency
> to lock the machine up hard. Now I have an update to my hotkey program
> (which is included in slink) which will fix this. However it comes as
> a version upgrade in the package, and besides required a whole new
> section of code to deal with the Fn key on the new models.
> How does not allowing this as an update to slink do anything for
> its stability?
Anything that locks up the machine is a critical bug (since it can cause
data loss) and so can go into frozen even if it has new code in it.
In other words, point me at the new version and I'll get it into slink.
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