- Package:
- libreoffice-writer
- Source:
- libreoffice-writer
- Description:
- office productivity suite -- word processor
- Submitter:
- José Luis González
- Date:
- 2025-08-08 14:19:57 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
- Tags:
The setting for spacing between paragraphs is missing in the spacing and indentation tab of the paragraph dialog. Serious severity because the bug has a major effect on the usability of the package, without rendering it completely unusable, considering paragraphs are a key feature in a word processor, and spacing is something very very basic for them and incredibly necessary.
tag 1068479 + moreinfo tag 1068479 + unreproducible severity 1068479 important thanks Hi, Am 06.04.24 um 00:34 schrieb José Luis González: ? It's definitely there. Format -> Paragraph has spacing "after/before". See here (yes, from stable): Don't overfinflate severities. That is the definition of important "5 important a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone. 6 serious is a severe violation of Debian policy (that is, the problem is a violation of a 'must' or 'required' directive); may or may not affect the usability of the package. Note that non-severe policy violations may be 'normal,' 'minor,' or 'wishlist' bugs. (Package maintainers may also designate other bugs as 'serious' and thus release-critical; however, end users should not do so.). For the canonical list of issues deserving a serious severity you can refer to this webpage: https://release.debian.org/testing/rc_policy.txt . " This matches 5, not 6. And it's unreproducible. Regards, Rene
tag 1068479 + moreinfo tag 1068479 + unreproducible severity 1068479 important thanks Hi, Am 06.04.24 um 00:34 schrieb José Luis González: ? It's definitely there. Format -> Paragraph has spacing "after/before". See here (yes, from stable): Don't overfinflate severities. That is the definition of important "5 important a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone. 6 serious is a severe violation of Debian policy (that is, the problem is a violation of a 'must' or 'required' directive); may or may not affect the usability of the package. Note that non-severe policy violations may be 'normal,' 'minor,' or 'wishlist' bugs. (Package maintainers may also designate other bugs as 'serious' and thus release-critical; however, end users should not do so.). For the canonical list of issues deserving a serious severity you can refer to this webpage: https://release.debian.org/testing/rc_policy.txt . " This matches 5, not 6. And it's unreproducible. Regards, Rene
Hi, Am 06.04.24 um 11:03 schrieb Rene Engelhard: Got lost. See https://people.debian.org/~rene/libreoffice/1068479-works.png Regards, Rene
Hi again, Am 06.04.24 um 11:11 schrieb Rene Engelhard: Just for avoidance of doubt since the screenshot is in German: That is the second part "Absatz". First is "above", second is "below" (the paragraph) Regards, Rene
Hi, Am 06.04.24 um 11:31 schrieb Rene Engelhard: - Before - After - First Line Regards, Rene
Hi again, Am 06.04.24 um 11:11 schrieb Rene Engelhard: Just tried in es_ES.UTF-8 (since that is what your other report used) and C (english) and also there: https://people.debian.org/~rene/libreoffice/1068479-works-es.png https://people.debian.org/~rene/libreoffice/1068479-works-en.png So not reproducible in either spanish or english locale either. Regards, Rene
Hi, Am 06.04.24 um 11:43 schrieb Rene Engelhard: [...] Sorry, ignore that one, you were just aiming at the spacing before/after the paragraph, not the indentation (not enough coffee yet). Still, as shown before the spacing before/after the paragraph is there. Regards, Rene
Hi, Am 06.04.24 um 11:03 schrieb Rene Engelhard: As said here and proved by screenshots in en,de and es this is present. Closing this non-bug. Regards, Rene
Hi, Am 07.04.24 um 20:59 schrieb José Luis González: No, it wasn't. Aha. Still not RC. You could have replied to my mails, though. Read again, I didn't ask for screenshots. Even if there was a bug it's not RC. Read the bug severities. Regards, Rene
* José Luis González <bugs.jlg@gmail.com> [240407 15:00]: First, please carefully consider the reply from Pierre-Elliott Bécue. The tone of your email is way out of line. If this is the way you regularly communicate, I would not be surprised that Rene closes your bug reports. It is clear to me from your quote of Rene's response that Rene honestly believed he was answering your question and the bug should be closed. Politely expressing the difference between the current behavior and what you were asking for, and at the same time reopening the bug (at a proper severity), would have been appropriate. It should have been done in the bug tracker and _not_ on this list. I've set Reply-To to the bug report only. I don't use libreoffice daily, but I do use it. If this is a case that lowriter already has a way to obtain "between" spacing, but it is just not in the proper dialog box, then this is a "normal" bug at most, possibly "minor". However, I don't believe lowriter ever had such a feature. If this is the case, the severity is "wishlist", and not higher. (If it does have this feature, I would personally be interested in how to do it!) In no way would I consider this an "important" bug, and absolutely not "serious" or RC. All missing or not-yet-implemented features might be considered to have a "major effect on usability" by someone, but in almost all cases, such a feature request is still only a "wishlist" bug. Please don't confuse the difference between how you would like the software to behave and how it is currently designed to behave as being anything more than a feature request, regardless of how important you believe the feature is. ...Marvin
Dear submitter, as the package libreoffice has just been removed from the Debian archive experimental we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1069123 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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