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Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)

Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)

Posted Aug 29, 2008 15:07 UTC (Fri) by charlieb (subscriber, #23340)
In reply to: Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld) by zlynx
Parent article: Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)

> The thing that gets me is that the RedHat guys seem to have a habit of
> ignoring bugs filed against previous releases.

That's probably true of nearly every busy software distributor.

> If only they'd read their Bugzilla from 2001 I bet they'd find a
> lot of things to fix.

That's also probably true of nearly every busy software distributor. It's an expensive process to re-triage every old bug report against every new version of software. Squeaky wheels get the oil.


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Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)

Posted Aug 29, 2008 17:10 UTC (Fri) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]

"Squeaky wheels get the oil."

I guess that's a problem when developers file bugs. I had already fixed my problems and built customized RPMs, so I had no reason to be squeaky.

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