Submited bug. Please review: User Switcher crashes on user B, user A can work only in text mode.

[Christopher Chan]

On Friday, May 14, 2010 09:14 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>> On Thursday, May 13, 2010 10:42 AM, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
>>
>>> You are confusing the label LTS with stable and bug-free. It literally
>>> means Long Term Support. That would imply that the support for that
>>> given version will be longer than that of the others. It has no
>>> connotation around "Bug-free" or "Stable".
>>>
>>> If you need a completely stable system, you should try the LTS and be
>>> careful with what you do. If that fails you, you should try debian
>>> stable. I hope you find what you need.
>>
>> Is it me or does your last paragraph there sound rather ironic?
>
> Ironic or not, even though an LTS-badged release seems to mean "a
> longer period of security updates than other Ubuntu releases" this is
> not what Canonical/Ubuntu means.
>
> A developer replied to a query about having 2.6.33 included in 10.04
> by saying that they were being more conservative than they would
> otherwise be because 10.04 was an LTS release. So Canonical's intent,
> even though it does not slap a "stable" on the name is that an LTS
> release is a stable one - or at least a more stable one than a non-LTS
> release.
>

Well, I, for one, am glad that that developer does sense the need for 
stability notwithstanding the opinions of certain overly righteous 
individuals on this list. Now if all the developers can take the same 
stance and do the legwork on their packages, a lot of the sorry mess we 
see reported each release won't take place.

But I don't what to do for those that have not received any love from 
their maintainer in a while because things have mainly been working 
until some big change comes up that they missed like switching from init 
to Upstart - like the daemontools package. I guess you can't complain 
too much for something like that that is not in the main repo though.