Bug#386778: GNOME in etch doesn't know what etch is
Josselin Mouette
joss at debian.org
Sun Sep 10 08:02:04 UTC 2006
reassign 386778 system-tools-backends 1.4.2-2
thanks
Le samedi 09 septembre 2006 à 23:19 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> Package: gnome-control-center
> Version: 1:2.14.2-2
> Severity: serious
>
> Every time I use the 'Configure Network Settings' or 'Adjust Date & Time'
> menu options from the applets in my GNOME panel, I am given a dialog that
> says:
>
> The platform you are running is not supported by this tool
>
> If you know for sure that it works like one of the platforms listed below,
> you can select that and continue. Note, however, that this might damage
> the system configuration or downright cripple your computer.
>
> So I have to ask, are any of the GNOME team actually *using* control-center
> in etch?
The problem is, developers are using unstable, not testing. I think this
is a more general issue than serving files.
> I can't imagine that any maintainer would consider it ok for this
> dialog to pop up when a user tries to access configuration functions on their
> etch desktop. Please fix this so that the Debian packages know what OS
> they're running on. :/
OK, this isn't related to control-center but to gnome-system-tools. The
detection code doesn't know of Debian 4.0.
> Marked as sev: serious, because this is a significant lack of polish which
> IMHO makes the package unfit for release.
I agree, we shouldn't release with such bugs.
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