Comment 53 for bug 342671

I'm going to go one further and propose that Kubuntu Lucid not be released with anything less than fully-functional default package manager and upgrade tools (the most fundamental system tool). If this means that Kubuntu is released later than Ubuntu, so be it. It'd be far better to release a working version late than to release a broken version on-time. Debian understands this; why doesn't Kubuntu?

Every version of Kubuntu released after Hardy has been fundamentally broken out-of-the-box in one way or another, whether wireless networking or package management. Now we're being told that Lucid--the next LTS release!--will also be fundamentally broken from the beginning. If this is true, Lucid should be renamed Ludicrous. And if this attitude continues, I think Kubuntu should simply be discontinued. It only serves to give the Ubuntu project and the KDE project bad names. New users will think so poorly of KDE that they will think KDE itself is fundamentally broken, and they'll go to GNOME or back to Windows. This is exactly what they will think if they can't do something as basic as install updates or connect to their wireless router. If Kubuntu isn't going to stop digging its hole created by releasing broken software, it should stop releasing software. Let people use other distros for KDE. Personally, I may return to Debian on my laptop when it comes time to move on from Hardy.