Gutsy Feedback

[Derek Broughton]

NoOp wrote:

> On 10/04/2007 09:40 PM, Mario Vukelic wrote:

>> Dude, stop bitching. You voluntarily run beta software.
> 
> I do indeed.
> 
> However I wouldn't be so inclined if the basic application problems with
> OpenOffice (ever try to run the wizards?), Evolution (ever try to print
> on anything but A4), Gnome-utils/Gfloppy, etc., were actually being
> *fixed* in Feisty. How about a security fix for OpenOffice 2.2 in Feisty
> (http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2007-2834.html)... nope,
> upgrade to Gutsy.

As near as I can tell, there _aren't_ any security fixes for this bug in
2.2.  How can Ubuntu package them if oo doesn't create them?

> Unfortunately the *only* way to get some of those basic application
> functions to work is to install Gutsy.
> 
> Perhaps you or someone else might run into the same cups-pdf problem on
> Gutsy. Would pointing out the problem here then consist of bitching if
> it helped solved your problem?
> 
> Is providing feedback/comments/opinions only reserved to paint a rosy
> picture?

I agree with you except for one thing: this isn't the place to report errors
in Gutsy.  It might get noted, but it is at least as likely to be missed,
as one assumes this far into October the developers are pretty busy dealing
with what's actually reported in Launchpad.
-- 
derek