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**
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** Copyright (C) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
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** All rights reserved.
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** Contact: Nokia Corporation (qt-info@nokia.com)
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**
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** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit.
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**
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** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:LGPL$
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** No Commercial Usage
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** This file contains pre-release code and may not be distributed.
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** You may use this file in accordance with the terms and conditions
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** contained in the Technology Preview License Agreement accompanying
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** this package.
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**
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** GNU Lesser General Public License Usage
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** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU Lesser
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** In addition, as a special exception, Nokia gives you certain additional
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** rights.  These rights are described in the Nokia Qt LGPL Exception
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** Nokia at qt-info@nokia.com.
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** $QT_END_LICENSE$
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/*!
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    \page bughowto.html
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    \title How to Report a Bug
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    \brief Information about ways to report bugs in Qt.
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    If you think you have found a bug in Qt, we would like to hear
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    about it so that we can fix it.
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    Before reporting a bug, please check the \l{FAQs}, \l{Platform
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    Notes}, and the \l{Task Tracker} on the Qt website to see
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    if the issue is already known.
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    If you have found a new bug, please submit a bug report using
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    the \l{Bug Report Form}. Always include the following information
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    in your bug report:
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    \list 1
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    \o The name and version number of your compiler
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    \o The name and version number of your operating system
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    \o The version of Qt you are using, and what configure options it was
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       compiled with.
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    \endlist
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    If the problem you are reporting is only visible at run-time, try to
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    create a small test program that shows the problem when run. Often,
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    such a program can be created with some minor changes to one
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    of the many example programs in Qt's \c examples directory.
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    If you have implemented a bug fix and want to contribute your fix
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    directly, then you can do so through the \l{Public Qt Repository}.
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*/