Why does the startup disk creator suck so bad?

[Colin Law]

On 15 September 2013 18:07, Shashank SVRSN <shashank16392 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 15 September 2013 12:51 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 15 September 2013 17:07, Shashank SVRSN <shashank16392 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sunday 15 September 2013 11:43 AM, Alan McKay wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey folks, I love, love, love Ubuntu but holy crow the Startup Disk
>>>> Creator has been buggy as hell for quite a few releases now.  I've
>>>> used it on numerous computers and releases - even VMs - and it always
>>>> requires a half dozen executions to format the USB drive before you
>>>> can install it.
>>>>
>>>> What's up with that?   I can't imagine it is something I'm doing wrong
>>>> but you never know.    Could it be?
>>>>
>>> I can't believe this! with same frustration I came out yesterday on
>>> Launchpad regarding the same issue..
>>> Vote this up so that it would gain attention
>>> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1225465)
>>
>> I /think/ you have put this on the wrong package, I think it should be
>> usb-creator-gtk, though I could be wrong as I don't know about the
>> package you mention (usb-creator).  It is a good idea when reporting a
>> bug to use ubuntu-bug <package_name> so that the appropriate version
>> information and so on will be reported against the bug.  As you have
>> reported it there is no indication as to which version of Ubuntu or
>> the application you are reporting the bug against.
>>
>> Colin
>>
> @Colin, the Launchpad interface notified this way - 'usb-creator-gtk' is a
> binary package. This bug has been assigned to its source package
> 'usb-creator' instead."

Yes, you are correct, my mistake.

> Regarding the version, I couldn't find where to
> specify it.

If you use ubuntu-bug to report the bug it should put the version
information in automatically.  Otherwise just include in the
description.  To find the version you can use
apt-cache policy usb-creator-gtk

Colin