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ubiquity package

  1. Bug #260001
  2. Comment #74

Comment 74 for bug 260001

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

OS/2-User: because the things you say are largely not true; I understand your frustration but your comments do not help. There are of course a number of people working on eye-candy-type things in Ubuntu, but there are also lots of people like me working on the foundations (I don't do anything that you could remotely describe as eye-candy).

You are probably being misled by the fact that the automatic bug-duplication system is a bit oversensitive here. It's unlikely that your bug is actually the same as this one at all.

The fact that we have bug reports in which everybody heaves in enthusiastically to report their own different failure to install the boot loader is one reason why exactly those bug reports have trouble getting fixed! I can't wave a magic wand and make everyone's boot loader installation work. I *can* work on specific, targeted failures. But when you say "show-stopper bugs like this", what you're actually referring to is a horrifically long bug history with 73 comments which actually includes comments about many different individual failures, most of which only affect small numbers of people (though obviously they are show-stoppers for those individual people).

Frankly, at this point I have some trouble even making out whether the original reporter still has a problem that's identifiably a bug (as opposed to configuration mistakes with multiboot setups, such as trying to use a menu.lst that uses UUIDs with an older grub installation that doesn't). https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/260001/comments/33 suggests that it works fine provided that he either uses a version of grub new enough to understand the relevant menu.lst syntax, or reverts the menu.lst syntax to cope with the older version of grub. Most of the people who added comments to this bug do *not* have the same problem as the original report. It's sad but true: I stand a better chance of making real progress if I work on better-defined bugs.

I'll split your bug report back out from this one, and look at it separately.