Comment 11 for bug 54652

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André Pirard (a.pirard) wrote : Re: Add a "workaround" field to bug

I don't believe in explaining solutions in the Description field because I did that, writing "Solution: ...", and some surveillant-looking person removed it, without explanation of course, maybe on the ground that it is not a description.
The purpose of a Solution field is not search, but would be the official place where a general user is told *what to do* to solve his problem instead of having to decode a complicated and often contradictory tech discussion and finding nothing or finding "fixed".
That problem is not restricted to workarounds but concerns any fix: the Solution: field would contain install package(s) "name version or later" (instead of fixed) and/or "do this...".

BTW, the depots should keep previous (superseded) versions of the packages. This is because a correction can introduce other mistakes. I experienced that several times, lately because of the "latest kernel", my system was going mad. But fortunately, one can downgrade a kernel and I was counting on that and it made me most happy. Isn't that the goal?