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Package: mantis
Version: 1.1.2+dfsg-10
Severity: normal
When creating a new bug report, if you forget to fill some mandatory
information, an error message tell you to press the back button of you
Web browser in order to complete your bug report.
The problem is that when you get back to the report page, all
information that you previously typed has disappeared.
This is a regression bug that is already referenced upstream.
See following tickets at 'http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/': 9655, 8161,
9323, 4001 (and maybe others).
I took a look at these tickets and it seems that the bug has been fixed
since version 1.1.3 by taking advantage of browsers caching ability
(which is not a real fix IMHO, but it's better than nothing).
My company has been using MantisBT since version 1.0.0a2. This bug was
already present in that version.
We upgraded mantis (and migrated it on a Debian machine at the same
time) because our users were really unhappy with this bug, and because
this bug was fixed in version 1.0.8.
Now, we would like to upgrade to version 1.1.x in order to use some
external stuff that requires a recent version of Mantis (MantisConnect
and Mantis plugin for Hudson) but we can't because this bug is back in
version 1.1.2.
IMHO, this bug should be fixed before Debian testing becomes stable.
When I have some time, I'll have a try with the mantis-1.1.4+dfsg-1
package that is currently in 'experimental'.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686-bigmem
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages mantis depends on:
ii apache2 2.2.9-2 Apache HTTP Server metapackage
ii apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd 2.2.9-2 Apache HTTP Server - traditional n
ii dbconfig-common 1.8.29+etch1 common framework for packaging dat
ii debconf 1.5.11etch1 Debian configuration management sy
ii libapache2-mod-php5 5.2.5-3 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii libphp-adodb 4.93a-1.1 The 'adodb' database abstraction l
ii libphp-phpmailer 1.73-2etch1 full featured email transfer class
ii mysql-client 5.0.32-7etch6 mysql database client (meta packag
ii mysql-client-5.0 [mysql-cl 5.0.32-7etch5 mysql database client binaries
ii php5-mysql 5.2.5-3 MySQL module for php5
mantis recommends no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1.1.4+dfsg-1
Hi,
thanks for your bug report.
> When creating a new bug report, if you forget to fill some mandatory
> information, an error message tell you to press the back button of you
> Web browser in order to complete your bug report.
> The problem is that when you get back to the report page, all
> information that you previously typed has disappeared.
yes, this is a known issue and is fixed in newer versions of mantis
(namely >= 1.1.4 of mantis). However I do not recommend to test with
the 1.1.4 version of mantis. Instead you should test with 1.1.5, which
has been uploaded to experimental recently and will reach the mirrors
soon.
> IMHO, this bug should be fixed before Debian testing becomes stable.
> When I have some time, I'll have a try with the mantis-1.1.4+dfsg-1
> package that is currently in 'experimental'.
I agree that this bug is quiet annoying, but it does not render mantis
unusable, nor is it a security issue, so I guess that this issue on its
own will not qualify for an exception by the release team. I still think
it would be worth to ask the release team for an exception, but I can't
promise anything and for sure some testing of the package in experimental
would be needed anyway.
Best Regards,
Patrick
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