Bug#281568: g-s-t, high quality program

[Thomas Hood]

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 20:43 +0100, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> You should contact the correct BTS (yes, upstream! gnome one!
> surprisingly, debian is not the only distro under the sun, nor the only
> one that g-s-t supports, nor has the only and one BTS I must read) with
> a copy of the file that fails or a test-case (that should be clever
> indeed), instead of blaming blindly with your offending and annoying
> sarcasm


The upstream author of the program doesn't deserve any blame.  Normally
upstream authors can't be expected to concern themselves with the
peculiarities of individual distributions.

Debian's variant of g-s-t damages various Debian configuration files.
Bug reports have been filed in the Debian BTS.  If you are interested
you can see them here:

   http://bugs.debian.org/gnome-system-tools

The Debian maintainer can't be blamed for leaving these bugs unfixed,
either.  People have a limited amount of time to devote to this
volunteer project.

g-s-t is present in sarge even though it is buggy.  No one is to blame
for this because no is responsible for assuring the quality of
configuration tools that ship in Debian releases and there is no policy
that dictates that configuration tools must not damage the system.

All this blamelessness means that users are well advised not to trust
configuration tools that ship with Debian.

-- 
Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>