Can anyone tell me what is wrong with LibreOffice?

[Colin Law]

On 6 October 2017 at 11:07, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello again.
>
> My faith in LibreOffice has been tested these few years because it seems
> that large pieces of it haven't been functioning for a while. The format
> paintbrush mechanism apparently hasn't been working for about two years.
>
> Recently, I've been trying to use LibreOffice for the first time after I
> installed 16.04, and I find that the spell checker is broken for Australian
> and UK English. It simply won't pick up spelling mistakes (neither as I type
> nor when I request a scan of the document) after I select either dictionary.
>
> I can't ask this question of ask.libreoffice.org because I can't get past
> the robot detection mechanism - that seems to be broken also. I think Ubuntu
> has to make a decision whether it should find and put resources toward
> making Libre Office function, or remove it from the default installation.

I have not seen any such problems.  What does
apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
show?

Colin