2. The bug is critical: it breaks security software.
3. The bug has been reported to Ubuntu, which has paid employees.
4. The bug is a regression and hence presumably not especially hard to fix.
Inference from the conjunction of 1, 2 and 3: *this bug should have been fixed by now*. Yet, it has not. Nor has any explanation been provided as to why not, at least not here. Not has there been a shortage of people asking, politely, for a fix.
Perhaps then a slightly more strident question is in order. To wit: **what gives?** This is the sort of unfixed major problem that drives people back to Windows and Mac OS. (I know that https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 is closed, but still.)
1. It has been four months since this bug - it its original incarnation (https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ network- manager/ +bug/1671606) - was reported.
2. The bug is critical: it breaks security software.
3. The bug has been reported to Ubuntu, which has paid employees.
4. The bug is a regression and hence presumably not especially hard to fix.
Inference from the conjunction of 1, 2 and 3: *this bug should have been fixed by now*. Yet, it has not. Nor has any explanation been provided as to why not, at least not here. Not has there been a shortage of people asking, politely, for a fix.
Perhaps then a slightly more strident question is in order. To wit: **what gives?** This is the sort of unfixed major problem that drives people back to Windows and Mac OS. (I know that https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +bug/1 is closed, but still.)