A couple of rants about Launchpad

[David Gerard]

2009/3/10 Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca>:


> I'm not sure how you got from B to C, since I didn't say anything about
> using apt-get only for third-party software.  I, in fact, said "perhaps it
> uses apt-get", which suggests that apt-get is not the issue.  Third-party
> software, however, clearly _is_ an issue because the supported upgrade path
> begins a release upgrade by removing all sources for third-party software
> (and annoyingly, ime, not adding them back in afterwards - really not that
> difficult since you only commented them out in the first place; yes they
> may well no longer point to a useful source, as many 3rd party repositories
> mirror the Ubuntu release structure, but I think they should at least be
> restored to the point they were at before the upgrade).


It does WHAT. Oh, Good Lord.


- d.