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Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

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On 08/21/2017 06:00 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Borden Rhodes <jrvp@bordenrhodes.com> writes:
Interesting. I have 3 machines running Stretch. I originally went from
Wheezy stable to Stretch Testing and let Stretch slide back into stable.
I have had absolutely no problems with stability or speed. Although I do 
find that there are certain packages that are missing from Stretch.


>> 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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Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Borden Rhodes <jrvp@bordenrhodes.com> - 2017-08-21 22:30 +0200
  Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-08-21 22:50 +0200
  Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch tony mollica <tjm3@threedogs.net> - 2017-08-22 01:00 +0200
    Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch tony mollica <tjm3@threedogs.net> - 2017-09-06 18:20 +0200
      Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-09-06 18:40 +0200
        Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-09-06 20:40 +0200
          Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-09-06 22:00 +0200
            Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-09-11 23:30 +0200
              Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-12 09:40 +0200
                Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-09-13 16:50 +0200
              Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-09-15 10:30 +0200
                Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-09-15 17:40 +0200
                Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-09-15 20:10 +0200
      Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-09-06 21:00 +0200
      Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-09-07 01:00 +0200
        Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-09-07 14:20 +0200
          Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch tony mollica <tjm3@threedogs.net> - 2017-09-07 17:20 +0200
          Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-09-08 01:00 +0200
  Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-08-22 03:10 +0200
    Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net> - 2017-09-07 01:30 +0200

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