A couple of rants about Launchpad

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 18:35 +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
> So when he
> referred to dist-upgrade & compared its failure to its success on
> Debian, I took it to mean that he spoke of the "apt-get dist-upgrade"
> command itself.

As did I initially

> But, more generally, when I said that I'd seen upgrades go wrong on me
> several times, I was talking about using the proper "update manager"
> tool from the GUI. It seems to surprise people on the lists, but this
> goes wrong too.

Definitely. I have seen it go wrong myself, though only related to video
drivers, resolutions, etc., but Launchpad contains enough bugs.