Comment 17 for bug 1503655

On 2015-10-08 07:08, JBF wrote:
> Gunnar said: A consequence of this buggy kernel upload is that many
> 'non-expert users' now have seemingly useless systems, and are unable
> to resolve the problem themselves.
>
> Please note that non expert users should not activate proposed
> repository.

The latter is indeed true. But (1) all users don't know that, and (2) people do not always do as they are recommended.

So yes, it's true in a sense that those affected have themselves to blame. But IMO that's not a reason to belittle the significance of the incident. Quite a few users out there are stuck because they used Update Manager to keep their systems up to date.