Comment 162 for bug 1325801

How about instead we just fix the bugs, given that it mostly works for people? We however can't do this unless the individual bugs are reported, and it helps a lot like people like Yu Ning provide patches too when it's very specific corner cases. There is no other tool which satisfies all of the "reliable", "easy to use" and "easy to maintain" requirements -- it's not like usb-creator is very hard to maintain, we're just dealing here with corner cases.

This particular issue here we've been at for a while, and this is simply because while I'm happy to test things and to sponsor things, usb-creator isn't the only thing I look after. Given that this isn't my top priority, I was relying on Yu Ning to complete the fixes. I did not see there was a new branch. Thankfully, we have Timo who also chimed in to help with the SRU.

As it's been mentioned previously, there are other issues which may affect behavior and make a SRU fail verification, something that we might not have thought of -- the answer to this is to iterate over these fixes, just as we've been doing now.

Can we please summarize the current state of this?

- Verification fails on Trusty and Precise.
- Does it work properly on Vivid? Presumably not because of the requirement for the architecture to be the same?

Given the same issue, it will also need to be fixed in Wily before the fix can make it to the stable releases. I'm still happy to review and sponsor proposed fixes.