Re: Woody upgrading problems, LILO and debconf
On Sunday 20 May 2001 10:48, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:10:52AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> > still be a huge number of unfixed bugs. Fixing all bugs in the
> > distribution is simply impossible, all programmers know this.
>
> However, it would be a start to fix some of the known bugs.
Your comment is not related to the discussion at hand.
AFAIK everyone is spending as much time as they have available fixing all
bugs they know of. But Debian maintainers often lack the detailed knowledge
needed to fix upstream bugs, and some packages (such as libc) are extremely
complex, essential, and ever-changing so that it's impossible to have all
bugs fixed.
For libc, if every good programmer in Debian made it their major priority to
fix libc bugs we could probably fix everything in a few years, by which time
there would be a new major version of glibc out which all commercial programs
would depend on, and which would offer features enticing enough that hardly
anyone would want the old debugged version.
As much as we like to make fun of Windows for having 64K known bugs, it is a
fact of life that significantly complex software projects have bugs. Our aim
is to fix the bugs in order of importance.
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