Bug#289715: Same already fixed bugs are back rendering Impress almost unusable

[Eric Valette <eric.valette@free.fr>]

Rene Engelhard wrote:

> What about trying to help us (our time ressources are really limited -
> remember: volunteers in spare time...) if you have that much knowledge
> (also referring to The C++ part below I snipped in this reply..)?
> This also would result in the bug probably be fixed quickly. As you are
> suspecting one patch already....

I'm not suspecting anything : I say the bug has been reported then fixed 
then reappeared with the exact same behavior. The faulty patch was 
suggested by the maintainer and the fact that only few things changed 
when I originally discovered the bug. Maybe it is just regenrating the 
bianaries that solved the problem due to a buggy development environment.

> We did. Chris tested -3 and I tested -4. It works here. And I tried
> those steps since I knew you would reeaper trolling if the bug came back

Trolling? Hummm for me Impress is _unusable_ for anything serious (I 
mean other than browsing already existing powerpoints slides).

Nevermind that's interesting because :

	1) either you do not "eat your own dog food" and do not use the exact 
same binaries/libraries that are in the package (or you distribution is 
not up to date. Mine (sid) is updated daily). Have you a recent sid 
incarnation?
	2) or the bug is not in the binaries themselves but in the environment. 
I will try to see if it also occurs like the previous time on my laptop 
as well. But I'm rather confident.

I have the following openoffice packages set :

	openoffice.org
	openoffice.org-bin
	openoffice.org-debian-files (BTW this one is not at the same revision 
it is still -3)
	openoffice.org-help-en
	openoffice.org-help-fr
	openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us
	openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-gb
	openoffice.org-kde
	openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us
	openoffice.org-mimelnk
	openoffice.org-l10n-fr
	openoffice.org-l10n-en
	

BTW if I purge openoffice.org-kde to see if it makes a difference : no 
difference.


> Which I again can't reproduce either.

So we need to wait until other report the same bug also so that we can 
decide if its you environment that is not normal or average user ones...

I will update my laptop, with today sid and see if the bug is there also.

-- eric