Upgrade was a disaster as usual <- still dead horse, just a clarification.

[Brian Murray]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:39:19PM -0600, C de-Avillez wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 03:45:31 -0500
> JMZ <florentior at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 12/11/2016 07:12 PM, teo teo wrote:
> > 
> > <snip>
> > > 2) sticking to an LTS for 2 f***ing years means sticking to
> > > tremendously obsolete software, usually full of bugs that have
> > > already been fixed upstream (by the way that is usually already
> > > true when the ubuntu release is brand new, let alone two years
> > > later),  
> > <snip>
> > 
> > I know, someone's going to think, "don't feed the troll".  Hear me
> > out. Teo teo's concerns about LTS are not trollish.  Users who elect
> > to run LTS rather than incremental releases must, at some point,
> > maintain the system with more current debs which approximate the
> > incremental upgrades.  I always follow the incremental upgrades, as
> > I'd rather fix a version which is farther along in development than
> > LTS.  I never fully understood why a individual user would use LTS.
> > LTS is better suited to a circumstance where uniformity is prized,
> > such as small businesses, corporations, libraries etc.  Teo teo is
> > certainly right that an LTS plan of action has significant deficits.
> 
> That might be true (that Teo's concerns may be important). Nevertheless,
> s/he behaves in a trollish way, and *intentionally* has been evading
> moderation.
> 
> S/he is moderated again.
> 
> I personally do not care if these concerns are valid or not -- I
> stopped reading her/his comments the moment they went to Trollland.

I don't think it's really trolling rather a false sense of entitlement.

> There are many ways of raising an issue. The way s/he does it is not
> acceptable on the Ubuntu ecosystem.

Additionally, its self-defeating too.  I'd much rather look at issues
from people who are nice and respectful than people who yell and
complain.

--
Brian Murray
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