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LibreOffice packaging for R-series

Registered by Björn Michaelsen on 2012-10-04

General packaging blueprint for LibreOffice 4.0 on Ubuntu Raring Ringtail

Blueprint information

Status:: Not started

Approver:: Jason Warner

Priority:: High

Drafter:: Björn Michaelsen

Direction:: Approved

Assignee:: Björn Michaelsen

Definition:: Approved

Series goal:: Accepted for raring

Implementation:: Unknown

Milestone target:: None

Related branches

Related bugs

Bug #114375: [needs-packaging] [Upstream] LanguageTool, a grammar checker for LibreOffice	Triaged
Bug #527938: Writer crashes on Tools->Bibliography without libreoffice-base	Fix Released
Bug #739184: [Libreoffice] Mnemonics do not work in Unity	Won't Fix
Bug #780399: Wizard doesn't run without libreoffice-java-common installed. The user should be notified to install it when running a wizard.	Fix Released
Bug #957589: Localized LibreOffice Help files ignored when help for en-US is installed	Fix Released
Bug #992232: [needs-packaging] libreoffice-report-builder	Fix Released
Bug #1017125: [SRU quantal] boost::unordered_multimap<>::erase(iterator, iterator) broken in boost1.49	Fix Released
Bug #1017771: LibreOffice Calc needs extra packages to use Address book	Fix Released
Bug #1062448: soffice.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in lucene::index::IndexFileNames::fileNameFromGeneration()	Fix Released
Bug #1064962: [SRU] Global menubar items do not work when opening a document directly from nautilus with no LibreOffice instance running	Fix Released
Bug #1068101: [Upstream] Libreoffice Quicklist menu entries need internationalization	Fix Released
Bug #1079653: please sync a libcmis version > 0.3.0 to raring as it is needed for libreoffice 4.0	Fix Released
Bug #1079656: [needs-packaging] please sync a liblangtag version > 0.4.0 to raring as it is needed for libreoffice 4.0	Fix Released
Bug #1079659: [needs-packaging] please sync a libmspub version > 0.0.3 to raring as it is needed for libreoffice 4.0	Fix Released
Bug #1079663: [needs-packaging] please sync a liborcus version > 0.1.0 to raring as it is needed for libreoffice 4.0	Fix Released
Bug #1079665: please sync a mdds version > 0.6.0 to raring as it is needed for libreoffice 4.0	Fix Released
Bug #1079670: Sync libcdr 0.0.9-2 (universe) from Debian experimental (main)	Fix Released
Bug #1084940: package libreoffice-gtk not installed failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/losessioninstall.uno.so , which is also in package libreoffice-core 1:3.6.2~rc2-0ubuntu4	Fix Released

Sprints

uds-r

Whiteboard

LibreOffice 3.7 will likely be 4.0:
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/michael-meeks-suse-com-minutes-of-ESC-call-td4015103.html

(?)

Work Items

Work items:
LibreOffice 3.7 is 4.0 with incompatible API -- brace for impact, rebuild/bump all depending extensions (checked, seem to work fine): DONE
LibreOffice 3.7 is 4.0 with incompatible API -- EOL binfilter: DONE
investigate libmerged for better startup performance: DONE
upstream unitymenus vendor patch https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32562 : DONE
upstream session installer integrationhttps://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/1071/ : DONE
remove old lo-menubar implementation upstream https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=commit;h=4e7f9650e2a32b648cbd50ab113955920f960354 : DONE
adapt the templates session installer button to the new template dialog: DONE
update and complete templates package upstream and for r (past feature freeze=>POSTPOSNED): POSTPONED
add session installer hooks for wizards: DONE
add session installer hooks for bibliography: DONE
use system clucene: DONE
[bjoern-michaelsen] make sure to only use Python3 in LO (work mostly done by Michael Stahl upstream -- just needs verification): DONE
[bjoern-michaelsen] check re-enabling the reportwriter component, check with jamespage for outstanding issues with Java7: DONE
ping bryce about a saner PPA builder setup (lp#1130153): DONE
LibreOffice 4.0 drops stlport everywhere -- adjust i386 packaging: DONE