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- Reporting a bug against openoffice.org
- --------------------------------------
- I) Make sure it's a OOo bug after all: #398923 and its friends for example
- are not.
- Set the Version: header right. If you found a bug in a specific version,
- set that as version:, even if you in the meanwhile upgraded. If you are on
- an up-to-date version and tried old versions and they have the bug, too, set
- the Version: header to the earliest version you found it in (of course, if versions
- inbetween don't have the bug use the version in which it reappeared and sustained to
- the current version)
-
- II) Check on the BTS (http://bugs.debian.org/src:openoffice.org) whether the
- bug already is reported. Do *NOT* report a new one then. For judging whether
- it's already reported, read *ALL* the bugs, think, try and use common sense.
-
- III) If you have crashes with a document, try another one. If only that or
- similar docs causes problems please attach THIS (or a similar type one
- causing it). Otherwise, don't file a bug, we can't look at it anyway.
-
- IV) Please attach a backtrace if possible (see
- http://wiki.debian.org/OpenOffice#debug). Install openoffice.org-dbg
- before doing this (and the packages it Recommends).
-
- Please also read /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org-common/README.gz for common
- problems ("Problems During Program Startup")
- If you have NFS/Samba/... file locking problems (i.e. files opened
- read-only when they should be read-write), also see the "File Locking"
- section in above file.
-
- V) If the bug is also in the version you can get from www.openoffice.org, file
- it there in the first place. If you really think this also should be a bug
- in the Debian BTS (because it's (release-)critical or otherwise important)
- please file a bug there too *BUT* note the issue number in the bug or mark it
- forwarded yourself if you can. Especially this is for feature requests.
- If you tested other OOos and the bug is (not) in version foo from bar, mention
- that, too.
-
- VI) Only report bugs on completely up-to-date systems. Don't file bugs on a
- obsolete version and neither on sid/testing systems really old. If bugs
- got fixed in sid, it doesn't make sense to file them anymore. (Exception
- is security bugs or really critical bugs which should be get fixed in
- stable.) When you think a dependency is missing/wrong/too lax please be *sure*
- that this is the case before reporting it. Most times it isn't.
- Use common sense and the bug severities for judging here. When you think you have
- an up-to-date system, check whether you really have one.
- (And do a dist-upgrade, try to reproduce the bug again).
- Also don't report bugs on broken mix systems unless you are sure about the
- dependencies/conflicts (see above).
-
- VII) Please give as much info as possible (installed OOo packages, installed
- extensions, "special" configs, additions, changes, whatever). Better too
- much than too less. (See #396225 for example which was caused by an
- unsupportable, non-free extension)
-
- Thanks.
-