Worthless updates

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Mar 3 19:23:38 UTC 2010


Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> said:
>> Usually, the first question I ask is "Do you have all updates installed?"
>> If the answer is no, I ask them to install the updates and won't answer
>> any question until they do. I'm not going to waste my time trying to
>> debug already fixed problems in old versions of KDE.
> 
> So you _are_ trying to force all updates on users.

If they want me to debug their issues, sure. Selective updates are not 
supportable. They shouldn't be necessary anyway, as our updates, even 
version upgrades, are supposed to Just Work. Excluding something is just a 
workaround for some bug, and not upgrading most stuff is just bad 
altogether. And if I work hard on pushing bugfix updates, that's not so 
people run the unfixed stuff and so I can spend my time trying to debug an 
issue that's already fixed! Sorry.

        Kevin Kofler



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