Every now and then I have a demoralising experience with the quality of Debian packages in sid. That's to be expected, sid is a development distribution, but it still sometimes gets on my nerves. I've decided to write about some of my experiences.
Some rules: I may not rant without
Earlier in the week I was interested in doing some very simple video editing. A bit of searching and I come across the name of a potentially useful program: 'pitivi'. As luck would have it, there's a Debian package! However, the program within won't run. I also discovered more or less immediately that the package (provided a useless, whitespace only README file)[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=556850].
Today I was looking at tracing stuffs, and I discovered etrace. The very first
action I tried after installing it was to look in /usr/share/doc/etrace --
which was devoid of documentation.
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514083)