[gentoo-user] Re: openoffice 3 broken?

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

»Q« wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 20:34:17 +1100
> Adam Carter <Adam.Carter@optus.com.au> wrote:
> 
>>> I've got OpenOffice (compiled), v3.0.0 here.  It appears broken.
>>> I haven't tried a lot of things, but this little RTF file
>>> gets it wedged right
>>> away: the console that started it says:
>>>
>>> error - missing word count in dictionary file
>>> Hash Manager Error : 4
>>>
>>> So I'm guessing there's a problem in a spell checker.  Where would I
>>> look to solve that?
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242020
>>
>> You need to emerge --sync again (there's an update to the ebuild, but
>> no version increment IIRC) and rebuild openoffice.
> 
> <whine>
> I really wish they wouldn't do that, especially for hang or crash
> bugs.  I know people without the problem don't want to recompile OOo,
> but it's annoying to have to watch bugzilla or the changelog to see if
> the ebuild has been fixed.
> </whine>

I agree.  This should only be done for build problems, not runtime 
problems.  I think there's even a policy in place for that; if it 
doesn't build, change the ebuild.  If it crashes at runtime, bump the 
revision.