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[Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/01/2013 10:58 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:

>>> Furthermore, the Startup Disk Creator (usb-creator-gtk or 
>>> usb-creator-kde) is also part of the test. The kde version works,
>>> but the gtk version is still broken and none of them is included
>>> in the Lubuntu saucy iso now.

I asked:

>> OK... did this test pass for Lubuntu Raring? If so, something must
>> have changed pretty recently to break it in Saucy!

Nio replied (forgetting to cc the lubuntu-qa list):

> No, usb-creator-gtk is still broken in Raring, but usb-creator-kde
> can be installed. The bug has 'too low priority' and has not been
> fixed yet. A problem with the kde version is that it pulls in extra
> packages.

Using the KDE one would probably push the Lubuntu ISO over the size
limit, we'd have to include all its dependencies on the ISO too.  Also,
it seems pretty odd design to have two products like this and for them
*not* to use a single underlying library that actually "does the work",
so if one works, they both work...!

Anyway... this makes me unhappy.  We created a test case for this, the
test was done for Lubuntu Raring, and it failed.  However, instead of
fixing the issue, Lubuntu Raring was released anyway!  Presumably the
same test also failed for Ubuntu, and it too was released.  I'm happy we
were able to release, but... if official ISO test cases fail, that is, I
thought, "supposed" to be release-critical.

Spending time writing test cases, testing, and teaching others how to
test in a standard way, is made less valuable if the results of that
testing process have no apparent impact on the released product!

Jonathan