Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:39:32AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Mike Hommey wrote:
> > The fact is users don't *always* have to set this, because far from all
> > websites require it. If so many users were impacted, we would be drowned
> > under piles of bug reports about this issue, yet, there is only a few of
> > them (only one, iirc). 
> 
> A few user reports of sites that don't work.
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg00532.html

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378644

As you can see, this is also a problem for Firefox alpha releases, that
don't use the Firefox name, as well as Seamonkey and others.

> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg00631.html

Same as above

> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg00580.html

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303707

> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg00074.html

Not an example, merely an answer.

> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/11/msg01517.html

Same as above

> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/11/msg00346.html

Blahblah

> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/09/msg01956.html

Google Toolbar is broken with iceweasel 3.0, better not try to fix this

> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/08/msg02474.html

Seems like a lot of people know how to work around stupid sites

> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/08/msg02480.html

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121832

> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/08/msg02362.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/08/msg02074.htmlo

Gmail works in iceweasel, now, so Google was able to fix this, obviously

> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg02776.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/04/msg04484.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/04/msg04382.html

> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/01/msg03730.html

A candidate for "Report broken web site"

> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/01/msg03183.html

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389201

> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/12/msg00334.html

Google toolbar again

> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=26760&highlight=firefox+iceweasel+agent

Always the same examples

> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=14861&highlight=firefox+iceweasel+agent

Not even a failure example, just people wanting a kewl firefox ua.

> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=21889&highlight=firefox+iceweasel+agent

Google toolbar again.

A great number of reports compared to the number of sites concerned...
we're still far from *all* users needing to set this in *all* cases.

(and if these same numerous users were complaining to the site admins
instead of working around these issues, users would probably not even
need these workarounds by now)

Mozilla.org even doesn't add Firefox to their own development releases,
that probably more people than iceweasel users alone use, why should we
even bother? And again, how is this even relevant as to whether
iceweasel might be pulled by tasksel or not ?

Now, for something relevant, do you really want me to get started with
crash reports ?

Mike