Serious regression in LTS update that has not been dealt with for months

[Vincenzo Ciancia]

This is not a rant. Just the evidence that something is seriously going
bad in ubuntu: this is a regression in the stable release that happen
when you UPGRADE FROM A FRESH HARDY 8.04.1 INSTALL: iwl3945 gets broken
and the bug is fix released because you can solve it by manually
fiddling with the installation, enabling hardy-backports, installing
backported drivers. 

I did that, and now I can't load snd_hda_intel anymore (not there at
all). Older kernels are no longer in the archvies, so the only easy
solution I see is to reinstall the distribution that I installed
yesterday and NEVER perform an upgrade anymore.

The point is: do you all think this regression was properly handled? 

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-backports-modules-2.6.24/+bug/190968

I would say "it has been properly handled" if I saw a SRU that fixes the
problem, so that going from a fresh install to an up-to-date system does
not show the problem at all.

My laptop has been out for assistance for three months. When it came
back, I installed intrepid on it for testing. Now I also neeed to work,
and intrepid is unstable for me (kernel hangs completely), so I
installed hardy, when I saw this situation I only wanted to cry.
Yesterday the first user I installed ubuntu to in my department (2 years
ago) came to me asking if suse is more stable than ubuntu as he was
tired of breakages. Sigh. This is an inversion of a tendency.

Vincenzo