On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 08:14 D. Hugh Redelmeier via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:

Do you remember fglrx? That was AMD/ATI proprietary video driver.

In 2011, this bug was reported.
It caused problems with system updates.
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer-updates/+bug/825339>
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+source/nvidia-common/+bug/873058>

Yesterday, the bug status was changed from "confirmed" to "Won't Fix".

Bad: that's a long time for addressing a very simple bug.
Bad: they didn't fix it
Good: they didn't ignore it, after all these years.

Please help me understand how you reached this conclusion. From my perspective this is very much the definition of ignoring it till it became very much irrelevant.

Dhaval