Python crash

[Scott (angrykeyboarder)]

Derek Broughton spake thusly :
> Steve Flynn wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 14, 2007 2:54 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>>> Steve Flynn wrote:
>>>
>>>> Firstly, this is not a bug reporting mailing list
>>> I don't quite agree with that.  I think if you use reportbug (Frank
>>> didn't),
>>> it still sends the reports here.  Which makes this a bug reporting
>>> mailing list.
>> I've never used reportbug so I can't comment.
>>
>> I'm stating the obvious here but this is an ubuntu users mailing list
>> - not a ubuntu developers mailing list. What is the point of reporting
>> bugs here when the chances of the correct developer seeing the bug
>> report are low.
>>
>> Is this not indicative of a bug in "reportbug"
> 
> Of course it is, but the bug has been there for years now, with continual
> reports that there's an imminent fix, but when Gutsy came out we got
> another flood of reportbug messages here (which is why I assume it's not
> yet fixed).  The chances of the correct developer seeing them is actually
> pretty high.  There's even a good chance that they are getting into
> Launchpad (certainly when Feisty was released, Corey was manually moving
> the reportbug posts into launchpad), but it's just frustrating to see this
> bug sit around so long when the simple solution is to remove reportbug from
> the distro altogether if there is no intention of making it work properly.


I've suggested that very thing in a bug report for reportbug. I think
others did too. Apparantly nobody gives a rats ass.

Heck Ubuntu Calendar (part of it) is still in Gutsy.



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