Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

[Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>]

Borden Rhodes <jrvp@bordenrhodes.com> writes:

> I was very surprised when they released Stretch as I didn't find
> anything 'stable' about the packages that I was using.

My reply was primarily addressing that statement: you were surprised
that Stretch, with the problems you describe, was released.


Borden Rhodes <jrvp@bordenrhodes.com> writes:

> 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 […] To my knowledge, it's still
> broken in testing […] (#863532).

Thanks. Do you have an understanding, from that discussion, why that
specific bug remained unresolved in Stretch?


> Then there are the issues with the upgrade to KDE 5, which aren't
> Debian's fault […] These are all upstream bugs that I've tried to
> report.

Are there bug reports in Debian that would show why the package should
not be released with those bugs?

> Ironically, both reportbug and reportbug-ng are broken on my system!
> The former's GTK interface doesn't load

Sorry to learn that. Does the text-only interface work well enough to
report bugs?

> I also ran into an issue […] I just uninstalled them and continued on.

I think you can see from that, why the Debian release team can't be
expected to know that a package is unsuitable for release, if people's
experience with a bug are not recorded in a bug report :-)

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Ben Finney