[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#542147: base: System init no longer reliable

[Michael.Burschik at gmx.de]

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From: Michael Burschik <Michael.Burschik at gmx.de>
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Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Dienstag, 18. August 2009, Michael Burschik wrote:
>   
>> Thank you very much for your helpful reply. So, Debian testing breaks my
>> system, and possibly others, too, but you don't really care. 
>>     
>
> I do care, thats why I replied and thats why I reply. It's just that your 
> report is not really useful at all:
> - which packages did you upgrade when?
>   

We are talking about Debian testing here. That means something like ten 
to fifteen package updates every day (138 during the last seven days). 
And since the problem is intermittent, I can't exactly say when the 
broken package was installed.

> - what exactly broke how?
>   

I'll repeat the problem: Sometimes, lvm disks are not mounted and dhcp 
is not used.

> - with what error message(s)?
>   

Error messages? Yes, of course, there was a big, fat, red ERROR MESSAGE 
and I did not include it in my bug report just to make things more 
difficult for you.

> "my system no longer initializes reliably" is basically as useful as "the 
> internet is down", sorry.
>   

Really? I would have thought the system initialization was a rather 
limited and well-understood (by Debian developers that is) process, but 
what do I know.

> If you provide useful information, it's easy to reopen this bug etc.
>
>   
>> I sincerely apologize for wasting your time. In future, I will not file
>> any bug reports. I will also stop using Debian testing. I might even
>> stop using Debian.
>>     
>
> You are free to do what you think is right. Enjoy!
>   

And that's exactly what I'll do. The point is, I am not running Debian 
testing for my own gratification, but as a service to Debian. I am 
*testing* the distribution and writing bug reports to provide feed-back. 
But I am no longer going to waste my time doing that.

>
> regards,
> 	Holger
>   


Regards

Michael