Linux - Check for Updates broken

[Richmond Mathewson]

  On 27/03/2010 10:10, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
>
> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> I couldn't find an RQCC report for this so I just filed one:
>> <http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8707>
>>
>>

I can think of far more pressing concerns than 'only' the Update-thingy 
(unless,
of course, the effort of checking manually is just too much effort), 
such as . . .

Fonts . . .  :)

> Its pretty obvious that the overall Linux situation, including this, has to
> be the result of policy,

You may be being a little hard: it might be a good idea to reflect on the
on sins of omission versus sins of commission . . .

or, put it another way; when one's attention is focussed in one particular
area it is easy to overlook or neglect another.

> so there is probably no point filing Linux bug
> reports.  However, prove me wrong.  When this works, and when the fabled
> media player comes out,

If one were really desperate for a media player I am sure that the good 
people
who made Stack-Runner would lob you a recipe to cobble one together for
Linux . . .  :)

> and printing gets fixed in 4.5, I'll apologize in
> ALL CAPS.  Promise.

Umm; can I joint in the "Love-Fest" too?

> Peter