Comment 17 for bug 1160346

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1160346] Re: do-release-upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 on Pentium-M fails, breaks system without any warning (This kernel does not support a non-PAE CPU)

> Not just that the wiki would seem to be not quite right, but also that
> some well-understood convention is needed, for use when one person
> justifiably assigns a bug to another.

The convention is already well understood among Ubuntu developers...

> So more than a month was wasted, when someone productive could have
> stepped forward.

That's not really anything that can be solved by policy or by technical
means. And frankly, if this went unnoticed for a month, it's not likely
that someone was going to step up to work on it during that period anyway.

> PS: Great to see this Pentium-M stuff getting some love at last. I know
> that many devs with screaming fast i7 kit think it's a non-issue, too
> old to worry about, affects a tiny minority.

Just to be clear, nothing we're doing here is going to change the
compatibility of Ubuntu 14.04 with non-PAE systems; only to stop users from
upgrading and accidentally winding up with a broken system post-upgrade.