Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd troll
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote:
As a single example, I have a multifunction printer, of which, the
multifunctionality worked with Debian 5. Now, it is only a laser
printer, running with Debian 6 - to use it to scan, I have to scan
to a USB drive, and then copy the files to the computer, as Debian 6
(and, I believe, similarly, Debian 7) does not provide for the
device to wotk with it, other than using a printer driver that is not
for the particular model range, and, losing all other interfaced
functionality.
Surely, it must be possible, to provide backward compatibility, to
allow software that ran on earlier versions of Debian, to run on a
current stable version?
No, for the same reasons I stated in the previous sentence. However
that's not the problem, or solution in your case (x-y?).
You need software support for older hardware, not support for older
software. I'd be very surprised if that was not possible.
That's a different subject and as such should be posted as a different
subject. Preferably with the appropriate information so your problem can
be resolved and so that it isn't just more irrelevant material clogging
the list with random, non-productive tangents.
This is just splitting hairs, with the "I'm more knowledgable than you,
so shut up and go away and don't bother us experts with mundane things
like problems, and don't question anything" approach.
The device had available, a software suite, named the Samsung Unified
Print Driver.
That worked with Debian Linux 5.
It apparently does not work with Debian Linux 6.
Something changed from Debian Linux 5, to Debian Linux 6, that prevented
that software that had worked on Debian Linux 5, from working on Debian
Linux 6.
Can you show that the Samsung Unified Printer Driver, with all of its
functionality, and, its encapsulated device drivers, that worked on
Debian Linux 5, works on Debian Linux 6?
Can you show that the Samsung Unified Printer Driver, works on Debian
Linux 6?
Is the Samsung Unified Printer Driver, software, or, is it hardware?
It is therefore a problem of software that worked on Debian Linux 5, not
working on Debian Linux 6.
This is ending up like the Monty Python Parrot skit.
The software worked on Debian 5, and, did not work on Debian 6.
The parrot is dead. It is not resting - it is not sleeping, it is not
doing yoga, and it is not meditating. It is dead.
Debian Linux 6, apparently killed the parrot, did it not?.
And, you have turned this into a personal hate campaign and character
assassination.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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