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Debian Bug Reports – Not Troublesome, Joyful

Published by Robert Pogson October 15th, 2012 in technology. 3 Comments

Recent analysis of the rate of filing bug reports against the Debian repository shows decline. Don Armstrong is troubled by this.

see Bug Reporting Rate in Debian.

There are other explanations besides a decline in participation by the community:

the quality of code is improving,
the Debian package maintainers are doing a better job, or
users have figured out which are the better packages and use them more.

I, certainly, am not worried about the decline in bugs reported. That means the release of Wheezy will happen sooner. I have been using Wheezy for months and have had no issues with it. It feels solid to me. There are no bugs I feel important enough to report. I get my work and play done quickly and efficiently using Debian GNU/Linux.

- Robert Pogson

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1 ssorbom Oct 15th, 2012 at 9:39 pm

Do you know if there will be an upgrade path from squeeze? I assume so because ubuntu normally has an upgrade path and the two are very similar.

I have a laptop and a server running squeeze right now.
I started using Debian this summer when I decided to go distro hopping again. I haven’t been through a Debian upgrade cycle yet.
2 oiaohm Oct 15th, 2012 at 9:59 pm

ssorbom debian always has upgrade path between versions.
apt-get dist-upgrade feature.
3 Robert Pogson Oct 16th, 2012 at 8:35 am

ssorbom wrote, “Do you know if there will be an upgrade path from squeeze? I assume so because ubuntu normally has an upgrade path and the two are very similar.”

I “apt-get dist-upgraded my last school to Wheezy two years ago. It was easy but there was breakage. Last year I did the same in my home with few problems. It’s pretty smooth now. The main problem is that the rate of updates is still pretty high. I don’t know who is doing the upgrades where I last worked. I left in a hurry after documenting things and the boss told me to give the root password to a complete newbie (and an idiot IMHO…) so they could have some breakage if they suddenly upgrade but the system was solid when I left.

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