Re: OOImpress unusable : Please Do something about bug #273298 #273335
Rene Engelhard wrote:
yes. in 1.1.3 it will be fixed upstream.
We took the patch (and *only this patch* extracted from upstream CVS
_verbatim_.
Do you think this single patch _only_ may cause the problem we are facing?
You don't seriously consider we don't fix the security problem in our
packages?
No. Just that you should not use the "security argument" to push
untested things close before sarge release especially if you know to be
short on ressources to fix a problem if anythings happens afterwards...
And what do you want to say with "in an other distro"? We still have to
fix the security problem for us and they take the same patch from
upstream CVS...
I mean that usually the patch for a known security problem exist when
the security problem is disclosed and you just need to apply the proper
fix _alone_ quickly and releqse a secured version of the previous
package. If you release anything else, you -then_ have to test carefully
any unrelated changes that also went into the CVS tree in the mean time
before releasing... I have seens many Linux (apache, ..) relesase
appearing with only security fixes while the development CVS/bitkeeper
tree was full of other unrelated changes that where not enough tested
and thus not released at that time.
These were RC bug fixes wrt printing....
I think personnaly printing suppose you can already produce a correct
document which is not really the case. You can always export to PDF and
print outside OpenOffice Don't you? RC for printing ? So the current
bugs should be RC then...
It would be very nice if you wouldn't tell us things we already do know
and I already am going to do but actually help us.. But anyway..
You probably do not _perfectly_ know how to tests changes nor do
security fix only related version but as you say "anyway" what is done
is done and lets go forward. I have expressed all I wanted to say and
now, I'm confident the bugs will be fixed.
And do not misunderstand me : this is absolutely not personnal but I think :
1) this is an important package
2) with a bug that makes it hardly usable to make any decent
presentation, CV, ...
-- eric
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