Comment 10 for bug 433799

Thanks for the patch. As it stands, I don't think it really fixes the problem -- it just makes the ad more vague. (It now simply prints "REvolution R not installed." at every startup.) This is still clearly an ad -- there are thousands of things I don't have installed, including many R extensions, and no-one feels the need to remind me of them every day! But now it's an even less useful ad. This seems like the worst of both worlds.

As for whether it's SRU-able... I dunno. Either the Ubuntu community agrees that this is a betrayal of their philosophy and users, in which case it seems SRU-able if anything is, or else they don't, in which case there is no bug.

I apologize if words like "betrayal" in the previous paragraph sound like hyperbole, but with all respect, Scott, I don't think you realize the extent to which this bug is playing with fire. It's a small thing by itself, but to many people it seems to threaten a fundamental shift in Ubuntu's philosophy. In Debian, this would be an automatic release-blocker and... I don't even know, get the developer who put it in kicked out of the project or something. Importance -> Wishlist is... perhaps not sending the right message.