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Re: pulseaudio related problems....



John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> writes:
> On 02/17/2014 01:37 PM, Norbert Preining wrote:
>> Why can you not simply say something like: "Well yes, there seem
>> to be some problems and we will try to fix them if we can get hold
>> of enough input. You DDs should be able to provide decent information
>> to help track the problems down."
>
> Then why on earth aren't those people who are affected providing some
> more information?
>
> This is exactly what I was talking about: If your solution is
> unstalling an affected package, then you're obviously not
> interested in fixing it in the first place.
>
> If you want me to help you with your problem, you need to provide
> something I can work on. Just claiming it doesn't work isn't helping
> in this situation, I don't have a crystal ball I can consult in this
> case.

The goal of most users will be "have sound", not "install pulseaudio".
This defines both the problem and the solution, from the users
perspective.

A package which appear to be non-functional at install time is not
likely to receive any bug reports at all.  Feel free to whine about
that.


Bjørn


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