Expand the description of the steps to take when reporting a bug.

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@ -157,13 +157,21 @@ Ethereal is still under constant development, so it is possible that you will
encounter a bug while using it. Please report bugs to ethereal-dev@zing.org.
Be sure you tell us:
1) Operating System and version
1) Operating System and version (the command 'uname -sr' may
tell you this, although on Linux systems it will probably
tell you only the version number of the Linux kernel, not of
the distribution as a whole; on Linux systems, please tell us
both the version number of the kernel, and which version of
which distribution you're running)
2) Version of GTK+ (the command 'gtk-config --version' will tell you)
3) The command you used to invoke Ethereal
3) Version of Ethereal (the command 'ethereal -v' will tell you,
unless the bug is so severe as to prevent that from working)
4) The command you used to invoke Ethereal, and the sequence of
operations you performed that caused the bug to appear
If the bug is produced by a particular trace file, please be sure to send
a trace file along with your bug description. Please don't send a trace file
greather than 1 MB when compressed. If the trace file contains sensitive
greater than 1 MB when compressed. If the trace file contains sensitive
information (e.g., passwords), then please do not send it.
If Ethereal died on you with a 'segmentation violation', you can help the