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on 06/02/2013 08:40 Mikhail T. said the following:
> I struggle to understand, how a less seasoned user could be expected to figure
> these two issues out...

Nobody expects that.  These two bugs are just bugs, there is no drama.
People change code, something gets broken for some very rarely used hardware, it
goes unnoticed.  Then someone notices, reports.  From that point, all depends on
that someone and on the developers.

-- 
Andriy Gapon