Has there been any discussion or communication with the Debian development team as to why we've had at least 3 back-to-back point releases of stable that have broken critical components of the system?
Debian 12.3 point release caused a critical ext4 file system data corruption bug (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... ug=1057843)
Debian 12.4 point release broke wifi capability for a large portion of users
Debian 12.5 point release has completely broken NVIDIA graphics drivers (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... ug=1063363)(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... ug=1062932)
I can understand problems popping up after a large release. The Debian development team can not possibly test every single configuration and rely on bug reports to fix things. However, I would like to point out that the latest 12.5 NVIDIA graphics drivers bugs were known about BEFORE the 12.5 release was made. Bug 1063363 and Bug 1062932 were filed and discussed on the bug tracker an entire week before 12.5 was released. Why are point releases being made that are known to cause significant issues that will affect a large portion of the user base? I love Debian and will always stick with it, but this is a little ridiculous.
Debian 12.3 point release caused a critical ext4 file system data corruption bug (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... ug=1057843)
Debian 12.4 point release broke wifi capability for a large portion of users
Debian 12.5 point release has completely broken NVIDIA graphics drivers (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... ug=1063363)(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... ug=1062932)
I can understand problems popping up after a large release. The Debian development team can not possibly test every single configuration and rely on bug reports to fix things. However, I would like to point out that the latest 12.5 NVIDIA graphics drivers bugs were known about BEFORE the 12.5 release was made. Bug 1063363 and Bug 1062932 were filed and discussed on the bug tracker an entire week before 12.5 was released. Why are point releases being made that are known to cause significant issues that will affect a large portion of the user base? I love Debian and will always stick with it, but this is a little ridiculous.
Statistics: Posted by Chaussettes — 2024-02-12 22:33 — Replies 8 — Views 272