network printing with Samba broken for months, no action taken, this is ridiculous

[Florin Andrei]

Take a look at this gem:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/967410

Let me summarize it for you. Network printing with Windows clients has 
been broken for months - since the 12.04 release basically. Everyone 
using Ubuntu 12.04 as a server, on a network with Windows clients, where 
printing is performed (fairly typical application of a Linux server) is 
impacted.

During all this time, there was no visible attempt at fixing the bug. 
Someone, please tell me this is a joke. No, wait, I just tried to print 
this evening after reinstalling the server, it doesn't work, I know that 
for a fact.

When I re-installed this server, I had the option of using either Ubuntu 
or CentOS. I am kicking myself now for not choosing the non-broken 
distribution.

So, what do I do now? Wait until the bug is fixed, hopefully some time 
this year? Or painfully reinstall the whole thing using CentOS?

Is this sort of situation typical of Ubuntu QA?

-- 
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/