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Subject:    Re: [opensuse] [11.0] Can't find deps req'd by 2.6.27 kernel
From:       "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty () suddenlinkmail ! com>
Date:       2009-06-07 8:59:56
Message-ID: 200906070359.57289.drankinatty () suddenlinkmail ! com
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On Friday 05 June 2009 08:47:21 Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2009/06/03 00:04 (GMT-0500) David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. composed:
> > Felix Miata composed:
> >
> > I feel your pain Felix. A number of my 11.0 bugs are just sitting
> > stagnant on bugzilla and have been for some time.
>
> http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=141443 is my oldest, and it
> seems a fix was recently found, but won't be made available except for 11.1
> or newer. Still, just because a bug is old doesn't necessarily mean it
> won't ever be fixed.
>

	If my car finally gets fixed six months after I have traded it in -- has it 
really made a meaningful difference? This is sadly where the Novell takeover 
of SuSE has really taken away from the SuSE practice of providing fixes to its 
supported releases.

	As you correctly point out, unless it impacts the current baby, the rest of 
the supported releases are just -- OOL. Now granted we all know the talking 
points novell is to stick to on this issue "Supported means security 
updates... it doesn't mean actually supporting older releases by fixing broken 
functionality." Yes, we get it..., but that wasn't the mentality of the SuSE I 
first knew. (there were a couple of other Susies in there as well -- but I 
digress)

	Yes for 8.x -10.x, the focus was primarily on security fixes, but many of the 
updates in that timeframe actually provided fixes to non-security bugs for 
*all* supported releases that were not EOL as well. The belated strict posture 
of - "Security Fixes Only" unless you are running the "current" release is an 
economic reality, but it really detracts from the distro and it is that 
constant pointed stick poking you in the eye to remind you that you are now a 
beta tester for the corporate offering and no longer a member of a true OSS 
community.

	Irregardless of whether you buy boxed sets, pay for support or download and 
test, the reality is the same -- you have very little chance of a bug (like 
the freenx-client, and kdiff3) getting fixed for a release once it is no 
longer the "current". Unfortunately, Cest la vie...



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