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Re: Testing netapplet



On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Thomas Hood wrote:

> I find it interesting that configuration tools are held to a
> lower standard than normal applications when it comes to judging
> their fitness for release.  (/me reads the RC bug list ...)
> There is, for example, a bug open against audacity that is rated
> critical on the grounds that it "causes audio data to be lost from
> some saved audacity projects".  However, if a configuration tool
> such as webmin erases lines in /etc/network/interfaces then that
> is considered OK so long as it wouldn't erase lines in _Grandma's_
> /etc/network/interfaces file.

Well only Grandma is likely to be using webmin in the first place!  And to
be fair it does work in the vast majority of cases.  You have a
complicated setup.

That's why your criticisms of webmin are not RC (IMO) they are important
though, I don't deny that.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/



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