Why does the startup disk creator suck so bad?

[Shashank SVRSN]

On Sunday 15 September 2013 12:51 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 15 September 2013 17:07, Shashank SVRSN <shashank16392 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sunday 15 September 2013 11:43 AM, Alan McKay wrote:
>>> Hey folks, I love, love, love Ubuntu but holy crow the Startup Disk
>>> Creator has been buggy as hell for quite a few releases now.  I've
>>> used it on numerous computers and releases - even VMs - and it always
>>> requires a half dozen executions to format the USB drive before you
>>> can install it.
>>>
>>> What's up with that?   I can't imagine it is something I'm doing wrong
>>> but you never know.    Could it be?
>>>
>> I can't believe this! with same frustration I came out yesterday on
>> Launchpad regarding the same issue..
>> Vote this up so that it would gain attention
>> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1225465)
> I /think/ you have put this on the wrong package, I think it should be
> usb-creator-gtk, though I could be wrong as I don't know about the
> package you mention (usb-creator).  It is a good idea when reporting a
> bug to use ubuntu-bug <package_name> so that the appropriate version
> information and so on will be reported against the bug.  As you have
> reported it there is no indication as to which version of Ubuntu or
> the application you are reporting the bug against.
>
> Colin
>
@Colin, the Launchpad interface notified this way - 'usb-creator-gtk' is 
a binary package. This bug has been assigned to its source package 
'usb-creator' instead." Regarding the version, I couldn't find where to 
specify it.