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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: openoffice 3 broken?
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:01:36
Message-Id: gemp68$f61$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: openoffice 3 broken? by "»Q«"
1 »Q« wrote:
2 > On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 20:34:17 +1100
3 > Adam Carter <Adam.Carter@×××××××××.au> wrote:
4 >
5 >>> I've got OpenOffice (compiled), v3.0.0 here. It appears broken.
6 >>> I haven't tried a lot of things, but this little RTF file
7 >>> gets it wedged right
8 >>> away: the console that started it says:
9 >>>
10 >>> error - missing word count in dictionary file
11 >>> Hash Manager Error : 4
12 >>>
13 >>> So I'm guessing there's a problem in a spell checker. Where would I
14 >>> look to solve that?
15 >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242020
16 >>
17 >> You need to emerge --sync again (there's an update to the ebuild, but
18 >> no version increment IIRC) and rebuild openoffice.
19 >
20 > <whine>
21 > I really wish they wouldn't do that, especially for hang or crash
22 > bugs. I know people without the problem don't want to recompile OOo,
23 > but it's annoying to have to watch bugzilla or the changelog to see if
24 > the ebuild has been fixed.
25 > </whine>
26
27 I agree. This should only be done for build problems, not runtime
28 problems. I think there's even a policy in place for that; if it
29 doesn't build, change the ebuild. If it crashes at runtime, bump the
30 revision.