David GoodEnough wrote, answering to Craig Bradney: > > > Are you saying that when submitting a feature request rather than > > > reporting the actual version we are running you want the latest > version > > > available selected? If so it might be an idea to add a note to > that > > > effect to the page or to remove the version number from the page > when > > > requesting a feature as it is obviously redundant. > > > > No, we need to know what version the bug exists in. Its fine to > submit a > > bug for an older version, but it'd be nice if you could test in a > newer > > version first, especially since you are 2 *stable* releases behind > by now. > > Of course, Debian being special, as always, causes issues such as > above. > But this a feature request not a bug. I also had received comments > from > this list that suggested that this feature was not in even the latest > version. > You might not implement it for several releases and a number of Bug > Trackers > have adopted the idea that there is no point in attaching a release to > a > feature request for exactly this reason. But if this one does not > have that > facility then so be it.
David, don't worry about it. We know Mantis has its disadvantages and I guess our handling of issues could be more systematic, too. I think you did everything right. MrB and mrdocs routinely recommend updating for the latest stable version of Scribus (and of ghostscript, and Adobe Reader), because that solves a lot of errors and is best for all (users have working software and developers don't have to bother with reports about old bugs). I think this routine was kind of misguided wrt. to your RFE. As for debian resources, malex puts a lot of work into providing debian packages for the most recent stable and unstable Scribus releases. Scribus 1.2.3 has been available for two weeks now, details are at http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Scribus_on_Debian_GNU/Linux . Our advice is not to rely on the normal debian distribution channel for optaining Scribus but to use our own repository at debian.scribus.net . Ciao /Andreas
