[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 144607] Bibliography database option does not open when selected

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144607

--- Comment #11 from Ismael Luceno <ismael at iodev.co.uk> ---
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #9)
> (In reply to Ismael Luceno from comment #8)
> > (In reply to Buovjaga from comment #7)
> > > Thanks, so it's indeed an Ubuntu issue.
> > 
> > Unless Ubuntu patched that specific portion, not really, the installation
> > may be mangled for other reasons, and the application should report this to
> > the user...
> 
> Ok, let me try to explain: you are not supposed to supply LibreOffice with
> the applications separately installed. Ubuntu chooses to do this and as we
> see from the Launchpad bug I linked to in comment 5, they have a workaround
> mechanism that *should* open Software Centre when you click Tools ->
> Bibliography.

Operating systems may disagree about how it should be installed, but that's not
the only reason the files might be missing; shouldn't the software always
report some error in cases like these?

I've checked debian changes, but it seems there's no changes specific to
Debian/Ubuntu. The build script just moves files around.

I've confirmed the behavior is the same in Debian, up to Sid with LibreOffice
7.2.1. We can reasonably assume this affects all debian-derived distributions,
as well as others using similar packaging approaches.

On Void-Linux, which similarly splits the installation, but has a slightly
older version (7.1.3.2), it just crashes the application.

So this is a widespread issue.

I've traced the fix to the crash to commit
1889c1af41650576a29c587a0b2cdeaf0d297587:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=1889c1af41650576a29c587a0b2cdeaf0d297587

Which indeed doesn't implement any feedback.

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