[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125451] The updater has never worked for me and manual updating is extremely cumbersome

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125451

--- Comment #10 from Markus Mohrhard <markus.mohrhard at googlemail.com> ---
(In reply to signupemail from comment #9)
> > The original reporter is talking about the "Update check" functionality which is actually not!! an updater. It only checks if a new version is available but will never install new versions.
> 
> 'Actually not an updater'; 'It only checks if a new version is available but
> will never install new versions'. (i) That is not what one expects from an
> updater. Possibly the expectation owes to Windows but the expectation
> exists. If this feature is retained then it seems to me that the UI should
> stress that it will not actually perform an update. However, so doing would
> throw the following further problem into relief. (ii) The current model is
> apt to cause frustration.

Note that the dialog and the menu never claim "Update". They explicitly only
mention checking for updates and are meant to notify you when an update is
available.

Especially on Linux it is basically impossible to implement an updater at all.
Despite that the 'check for updates' feature is important as we still have way
too many people who are unaware of newer builds and use old and insecure
builds.

> 
> > The distro builds sadly also provide more features as we still struggle with out old baseline.
> 
> I do not understand. Is the idea that distro builds provide versions of
> Libre Office that are still experimental?

They just have the advantage of a more modern baseline. Our TDF builds are
produced against an old CentOS to be able to support as many Linux users as
possible which sadly means that not all features can be built on that platform.

I'm not sure what you want out of this bug report. We are not going to remove
the update check and there is no way that we are going to implement an
automatic updater on Linux.

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