# What's the correct way to report a regression?

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/56257
- Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/56257
- Started by Dirk Haun on 2011-11-10T22:01:21+00:00
- Messages: 3
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## #56257 — Dirk Haun — 2011-11-10T22:01:21+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/56257#56257

I've notice, back in PHP 5.4.0 beta 2, that this test was failing:

Bug #48555 (ImageFTBBox() differs from previous versions for texts with new lines) [ext/gd/tests/bug48555.phpt]

So I went to https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48555 and left a comment.

The same test still fails in 5.4.0RC1 and also for 5.3.9RC1.

Now, I have no idea if this is really a critical or important issue, but apparently a test exists for it and it fails now. So how should I go about reporting it so that somebody looks into it and decides if it's worth fixing?

Since I'm not the original reporter of bug #48555, I can't edit it to update the affected PHP version. Should I have opened a new bug report instead? Would that have gotten someone's attention?

bye, Dirk

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## #56410 — Felipe Pena — 2011-11-18T20:02:33+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/56257#56410 · In reply to: #56257

Hi,

2011/11/10 Dirk Haun <dirk@haun-online.de>:
> I've notice, back in PHP 5.4.0 beta 2, that this test was failing:
>
> Bug #48555 (ImageFTBBox() differs from previous versions for texts with new lines) [ext/gd/tests/bug48555.phpt]
>
> So I went to https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48555 and left a comment.
>
> The same test still fails in 5.4.0RC1 and also for 5.3.9RC1.
>
> Now, I have no idea if this is really a critical or important issue, but apparently a test exists for it and it fails now. So how should I go about reporting it so that somebody looks into it and decides if it's worth fixing?
>
> Since I'm not the original reporter of bug #48555, I can't edit it to update the affected PHP version. Should I have opened a new bug report instead? Would that have gotten someone's attention?
>

Please open a new bug reporting the regression, thanks.

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Regards,
Felipe Pena

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## #56414 — Pierre Joye — 2011-11-18T20:55:18+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/56257#56414 · In reply to: #56257

hi Dirk,

It is not a regression in our code but in the freetype library. I
still have to find a way to have a reliable tests suite for this.

Cheers,


> I've notice, back in PHP 5.4.0 beta 2, that this test was failing:
>
> Bug #48555 (ImageFTBBox() differs from previous versions for texts with new lines) [ext/gd/tests/bug48555.phpt]
>
> So I went to https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48555 and left a comment.
>
> The same test still fails in 5.4.0RC1 and also for 5.3.9RC1.
>
> Now, I have no idea if this is really a critical or important issue, but apparently a test exists for it and it fails now. So how should I go about reporting it so that somebody looks into it and decides if it's worth fixing?
>
> Since I'm not the original reporter of bug #48555, I can't edit it to update the affected PHP version. Should I have opened a new bug report instead? Would that have gotten someone's attention?
>
> bye, Dirk
>
>
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> 
> 
>
>



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Pierre

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