Upgrade issues

[Neal McBurnett]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 02:18:52PM -0700, Dale Amon wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 01:59:23PM -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> > The appropriate way to deal with clear bugs is to report them in launchpad, along with the necessary details like steps to reproduce, kind of hardware, etc.  Do you have bug numbers for these?
> 
> It is not clear these are bugs. It seems more likely they
> are just items for which someone can say: "Just do this" or "Just
> read this".
> 
> The only one I think is a probable real bug is the inability
> of the backdrop panel to handle large numbers of files.

You cut out the text of mine that you're responding to, but you'll see that in that reply I only was talking about the items that clearly are bugs: the large number of files and the "lockups on lid closure".

Did you subumit bug reports on them?

As for the rest of your issues, as far as I can see Mate was in the "universe" component in Saucy, and thus does not have official support available.  It should have "community support", but that is hard, especially for very tricky stuff like seamless upgrades.  I still suggest detailing your experiences in launchpad bug reports for those also - that is the best way to get help and to help others out, in my experience.  Or, indeed, to switch to a distro that focuses on your preferred software, if it has a better track record or community for what you want to do.

See more at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories:

 Universe

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Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/