Surpassing Microsoft quality
Hi
I've been using Debian for 4 years because I felt confident about
it's quality. I've swallowed the ancient software in the name of
stability. I've been proud of security updates. I learned how to make
the desktop useful for human beings.
Now, I have awaken because of bug 372719. Wine crashes,
OpenOffice.org 2.0 crashes upon saving a document. The bug was
introduced in "security update" of libfreetype. Identification of
problem was quick in OpenOffice.org community, and also in Debian. Just
apply the next security update that will fix the bug.
Not that easy. It's 2 months now and bug still there. Why should
anyone care about Wine and OpenOffice.org users...
If it is so easy for comunity to simply ignore or doom Wine and
OpenOffice.org users and nobody gets hurt, then who could rely on such
community? How to keep confidence in Debian? Such behaviour is truly
surpassing even the Microsoft.
Not that the bug was my first problem with security updates. Not
even that it was my first problem with Debian in my 4-year server and
desktop experience. However, I feel like Debian quality is quickly
vanishing last year. The ignorance of the damage caused by "security
update" is the last, bitter drop in bucket. After 4 years of Debian,
maybe it's time to give Ubuntu a try.
Peter
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