Comment 7 for bug 12649

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 18:31 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
> gnome-system-tools is a configuration utility. In Debian, configuration
> utilities can do anything, no matter how stupid, without it being
> considered an RC bug. The reasoning is that the administrator chooses
> to run the program; hence if chaos results then it is the admin's own
> fault. He should have known better.
>
> If a higher standard than this were applied to gnome-system-tools --
> e.g., if the standard were applied that g-s-t should not mangle system
> configuration files or dupe the admin into doing so, then g-s-t would
> not be releasable. (See the many bugs open against g-s-t in the Debian
> BTS.) If it couldn't be released with sarge then neither could the
> "gnome" package, which depends on it. You don't want sarge releasing
> without GNOME, do you?
>
> (P.S. Please note that this is my sarcastic way of saying that this bug
> report is an additional reason for deeming g-s-t not to be of release
> quality.)

Thomas,

You should contact the correct BTS (yes, upstream! gnome one!
surprisingly, debian is not the only distro under the sun, nor the only
one that g-s-t supports, nor has the only and one BTS I must read) with
a copy of the file that fails or a test-case (that should be clever
indeed), instead of blaming blindly with your offending and annoying
sarcasm

but notice that if it hasn't been fixed before, it's because I couldn't
experiment this, and because I can't magically know the config files
that the people have

 now let's try to be helpful