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Contrary to what the post says, I usually have the same experience filing bug reports on Debian: most of the time no one replies. However, even though I no long
by a3_nm 8y ago
Contrary to what the post says, I usually have the same experience filing bug reports on Debian: most of the time no one replies. However, even though I no longer really expect anyone to react, I still think it's useful to report bugs. Indeed, when I have a problem and am searching for explanations, it's often very useful to find a bug report even if the bug has not been fixed: it can help you confirm that the problem is not specific to your setup, can give you hints about what is causing it, can suggest possible workarounds, etc. So even "giving up" on Ubuntu bug reports doesn't mean it's not useful to report bugs, IMHO.
- antod 8y agoI agree. Even if ignored by the distro, I've had other users do a better job than I could tracking down the source of bug reports I've posted and either offering work arounds or what new upstream release is likely to fix it. And I manage to help out on some others too occasionally. Even if you're just creating a record of the specific error message for other users to search for and collect their experiences of it in one place - that still has some value to the community. I have had reasonable luck with some portion of Ubuntu bug reports though - especially from the Samba/Winbind maintainers over the years. They did have their work cut out for them :) If an Ubuntu package is part of Universe instead of Main, it's tough going getting Canonical to care much about it though. Universe packages basically just come down from Debian, while the Main packages are created and maintained by Ubuntu.