Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch
Thank you for your response, Ben,
> What response did you get to the bug reports you filed from the problems you encountered?
One example includes an X regression that caused it to wait upwards of
8 minutes searching for my laptop's touchscreen. The bug was caused by
a typo where, instead of waiting 250 milliseconds to detect a serial
device, it waits 250 seconds. To my knowledge, it's still broken in
testing and I've worked around it by uninstalling the
xserver-xorg-input-wacom driver (#863532).
Then there are the issues with the upgrade to KDE 5, which aren't
Debian's fault but still make KDE pretty unstable. A lot of features
have been removed and other things just plain don't work. These are
all upstream bugs that I've tried to report.
Ironically, both reportbug and reportbug-ng are broken on my system!
The former's GTK interface doesn't load and the latter URL-safe
encodes all the text (#594217), so all you get is a bunch of gibberish
and a rejection from the BTS.
I also ran into an issue where live-boot and/or live-config suddenly
prevented my system from booting (I make images for USB installs),
despite https://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ saying that there's no
harm to installing them. I just uninstalled them and continued on.
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