upgrading 12.04 to 14.04 gives many problems

[Colin Law]

On 5 September 2014 09:48, J.L. Blom <joep at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> On 04/09/14 19:49, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>>
>> hi,
>> Am Donnerstag, den 04.09.2014, 14:29 +0100 schrieb R Kimber:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:33:51 +0200
>>> Joep L. Blom wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2.    Next my backuppc would´nt start and I discovered that for some
>>>> reason or other all soft links were destroyed as those in charge in
>>>> their endless wisdom had decided to mount external device on
>>>> /media/user/some_name instead of originally /media/some_name. This
>>
>> ...
>>>
>>> I guess the new system is geared to machines that might have several
>>> users,
>>> so mounts have been put under usernames. I can't think of any other
>>> reason
>>> for it. I assume that the developers are more interested in the corporate
>>> context in which Ubuntu might be used,
>>
>> not an ubuntu decision ... that was decided by the udisks2 upstream
>> developers (who are mainly redhat/fedora people afaik)
>>
> Oli,
> Thanks for your reply but that is too easy. I can not imagine that the
> ubuntu developers can´t think on their own and at least require an
> explanation of the udisk2 developers as it is definitely not an improvement.

No doubt the ubuntu developers (most of whom are unpaid volunteers by
the way) can think on their own but they cannot "require" an
explanation of the udisk2 developers.  They do not have any
contractual arrangement with the udisk2 developers nor pay for the
software, so as with, for example, the Gnome developments, many of
which have been difficult to stomach, they just have to use the best
s/w available and get on with it.

Colin