Comment 55 for bug 342923

No matter how good the reason and explanations can be...

It's very good that the developpers of a given driver or package improve it, and it may result in occasional regressions and trouble.

But we're not talking about a driver's development but about a _major distribution_ and it's the responsibility of the packagers of a major distribution such as Ubuntu not to incorporate immature technologies resulting in end-user large and previsible regressions until the new version of this or that is mature.

Maybe keep the bleeding-edge incomplete packages to experimental repositories, clearly labeled as such so it's a choice and nobody's surprised.

When you professionally manage a park of heterogeneous machines and have to upgrade tens of them, you simply can't afford to lose one day of work solving (or not !) one or two different new problems or regressions for each and every machine you upgrade.

And for the not-so-knowledgeable end-user who was happy with the previous release on his machine and is still discovering Linux, releasing a new distro version where the upgrade will previsibly break what used to work is simply a no-go.

That really makes me worry about the directions Ubuntu takes : since Gutsy I have a several pages list of serious regressions and upgrade issues that surely affect a large proportion of the users base...