Why was this dbus disaster released mid-release?

[Alex Makhlin]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Robert P. J. Day
> <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Joshua C. <joshuacov at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Does the maintainer read this list?  He still works on it (in
>>>> koji) but it seams he doesn't know that the user are using his
>>>> broken "update"
>>>>         
>>> He's aware.. he's apologized publicly in the -devel-list.
>>>
>>> -jef
>>>       
>>  in a world where people are simply used to windows crashing and
>> burning on a regular basis, it's amusing to see the consternation in
>> the linux community when one bad package escapes into the wild.
>>
>>  man, some of you folks have gotten spoiled.
>>
>> rday
>>     
>
>
> I have to admit, not having to do weekly virus+spyware+defrag+updates
> does get one lazy.
>
>
>   
Excuse me? YUM is completely broken! What the #$@&$ am I supposed to do 
now but wait? Until January? This is a period of time when most 
companies have a code freeze. I will be amazed if ReadHat does not take 
to the same.