challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

Jo Rhett jrhett at netconsonance.com
Thu Jun 5 05:15:41 UTC 2008


On Jun 4, 2008, at 5:30 PM, Steven Hartland wrote:
> That's unfortunate. One thing you might want to check is are there
> any changes in those areas between 6.2 and 6.3 e.g. if its a bug
> with a specific driver but said driver has had no commits or
> not commits in the specific area then it may be fairly safe to
> conclude said bug also exists in 6.2 and if you haven't seen it
> there your unlikely to experience it in 6.3.


The bugs in question are *not* replicable in 6.2, and each of the bug  
reports has said so.

This is the major point of concern for us.  What happened between 6.2  
and 6.3 to break so many drivers?

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness




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