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Skriven 2011-02-12 16:04:26 av Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Ärende: Re: Developers dodging bug reports if things aren't Linux.
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From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM>

> Yes, that looks like the bug. Surprisingly I did remember my login 
> there and added my 2 cents. I don't have much hope for their bug 
> system. When I first installed Ubuntu 5 or so years ago, and it 
> installed Grub into the MBR I was upset that unlike other 
> distributions, it did not add BootManager to the grub/LILO menu even 
> though it was the active partition. While I was knowledgeable enough 
> to add BootManager to the grub menu, others probably aren't.
>
> They closed the bug as cosmetics.
>

You think that's bad?  I recently filed a VirtualBox bug about a 
firmware API that's wholly unusable when used as requested.  
VirtualBox's firmware erroneously reports the PCI BIOS32 code/data 
mappings that it needs in order to operate as zero length.  This is a 
simple error in one line of assembly language.  It's easily fixable, and 
it's obviously incorrect on its face, even if one doesn't read the PCI 
BIOS Specification to see the interface contract explicitly spelled 
out.  I even provided a reasonable fix (based, in no small measure, upon 
experience of what real firmwares on real machines request) right from 
the get-go when opening the bug report.  I then had to endure all sorts 
of back and forth with a nitwit from Oracle who argued at length that 
the specification was vague, quoting something that wasn't the 
specification as evidence, tried to pull the "You're the only person to 
have actually told us about this, so it isn't a bug." trick, and tried 
to pull the "It's not Linux, so VirtualBox developers like me won't take 
you seriously." trick.

It's VirtualBox bug #8244.  Go and read and despair of the state of 
VirtualBox bugfixing at Oracle Corporation.

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