Comment 39 for bug 484252

What you basically sound like is "give it a break, will you?!".
I only care as much right now for OSS Desktops to have commented in
the first place about how OSS tends to focus on adding new features
more than fixing current bugs, just not in so many words.
This bug is VERY representative of OSS, at least on the graphical
applications (desktop) side of things. Nothing is as polished as it
should be since all the focus is on the backend with very little focus
on the frontend.

That said, nothing beats OSS when it's anything but the desktop.

Sorry for going offtopic. You can delete this post. I already know it
can't make a difference anyway.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Nigel Atkinson
<email address hidden> wrote:
> "That's OSS for you, don't get your hopes up."
>
> This bug and it's failure to be fixed is not representative of OSS.
> I've seen bugs fixed minutes after I've submitted a bug report.  Several
> times.
>
> That said I first found and reported this YEARS ago when using Hardy
> Heron.  I find it amazing that a bug that potentially destroys users
> data, has been known about and lasted so long.
>
> Hopefully this is not representative of Ubuntu, but I don't bother
> submitting bug reports anymore.
>
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>
> Title:
>  Format action wipes all partitions
>
> Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
>  In Progress
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: usb-creator
>
>  I have two partitions on my stick: FAT-32 boot partition and Ext-4 without journal one. So, the program shows: 1) FAT partions, Ext 4 partition, Whole drive.
>  I can only choose one item in the list: fat, ext4 or whole drive. I suppose the utility only formats selected partition (and leaves other ones alone) or formats the whole drive into Fat-32. But it doesn't. It formats the whole stick into one big Fat-32 partition, which is highly inconsistent.
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  Architecture: amd64
>  Date: Tue Nov 17 18:41:18 2009
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
>  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>  Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.12
>  PackageArchitecture: all
>  ProcEnviron:
>   PATH=(custom, user)
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  SourcePackage: usb-creator
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-020632rc6-generic x86_64
>
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