Timeline for Should questions seeking workarounds for bugs be allowed?
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| Jun 20, 2020 at 14:46 | history | edited | pomsky | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 14, 2013 at 10:24 | comment | added | Tom Brossman | @MarcoCeppi I just tried a search on the main site for 'bug workaround' and got quite a few hits. Is it time to start close-voting/flagging many of these? | |
| Dec 22, 2012 at 18:09 | vote | accept | Brad Koch | ||
| Nov 20, 2012 at 14:57 | comment | added | d_inevitable | I would disagree on that for the exact same reason as Eliah kagan has in his answer here. Not all workarounds are relevant in terms of debugging the actual issue. Specially for cases where the workaround involves the use of tools that have nothing to do with the tool that involves the bug. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 14:27 | comment | added | Marco Ceppi Mod | The site only supports releases of Ubuntu that Canonical recognizes as supported. So if you're running outdated Ubuntu installs we can't help you to begin with. If a bug requires a workaround for other supported releases of Ubuntu then it still needs to be documented on the bug itself. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 12:47 | comment | added | d_inevitable | @MarcoCeppi upgrading may not always be a viable solution. Specially if the fix is only applied for a new major release. | |
| Nov 18, 2012 at 13:41 | comment | added | Marco Ceppi Mod | Because it's already fixed? Just upgrade the package. | |
| Nov 18, 2012 at 4:09 | comment | added | d_inevitable | But if a bug is already reported and fixed in a future / newer release, why would it be still be wrong to ask for workarounds here? | |
| Oct 27, 2012 at 20:25 | comment | added | Brad Koch | Understood. It's unfortunate Stack Exchange's benefits (cutting the long discussion & floating the best workaround to the top) aren't available for this. | |
| Oct 27, 2012 at 20:11 | history | edited | Marco CeppiMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 27, 2012 at 20:06 | comment | added | RobotHumans | +1. Wasn't sure how hard the line on bug workarounds was. | |
| Oct 27, 2012 at 20:03 | history | answered | Marco CeppiMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |