Comment 173 for bug 571707

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 05:42:18PM -0000, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
> The status of the bug is correct -- it's fixed in mountall on Ubuntu, and
> mountall in Lucid (via lucid-updates). If it's still broken in Linux Mint, then
> open a task there and set it to the appropriate status. There is no reason to
> demand that the "Fix released" status in Ubuntu be changed to "Won't Fix" when
> it clearly has been fixed over here.

> So to sum it all up in a nutshell, it's all fixed on Ubuntu, but not fixed on
> Linux Mint, so obviously something went wrong somewhere in porting the fix from
> Ubuntu to Mint, so please stop blaming Canonical or Ubuntu for not paying
> attention to this bug report. If you need someone to badger about this bug
> occurring in Mint, find a Mint developer.

There is a task for Linux Mint on this bug already, and its status has been
set to 'fix released' by a Mint developer, apparently on the basis that the
lucid-updates version of mountall was copied into Linux Mint 9. I believe
it's the status of *this* task that the Mint users are concerned with.
Unfortunately, the Launchpad bug workflow doesn't make this at all clear.
(I think for this reason it might be better for derivatives to use separate
bugs for tracking issues, instead of tasks on Ubuntu bugs.)

There are also comments that the bug is still reproducible with 10.04 with
much lower frequency. This may be true; when this bug was being worked on,
the analysis was that there was still a bug in plymouth here, just one with
much less user impact now that the mountall side has been fixed. However
(as you know, but it appears the users subscribed to this bug do not), "LTS"
does not mean that all bugs reported against that release will be fixed; it
means that security support, upgrade support, and commercial support are
provided, and that bugfixes will be made on a best-effort basis.

And there are a number of other plymouth bugs present that are higher-impact
than this one, so it is unlikely that this bug will receive further
attention for 10.04.

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