[Libreoffice-qa] Pushing 4.2.4 into Ubuntu Update Repo

[Jay Philips]

Hi Bjoern,

I upgraded to 4.2.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 from the proposed repo and

Bug 1219245 - while having writer open, it didnt crash when i did a
software update including the installation/upgrade of various font
related packages (libfontconfig1, fontconfig, libxfont1,
fontconfig-config, fonts-opensysmbol).

Bug 1296715 - confirmed the issue was in 4.2.3 in ubuntu (doesnt happen
in xubuntu) and that its fixed after the upgrade.

Here are some notes i wanted to pass across from my updating experience -

1) after enabling the proposed repo, 'software & updates' asked me to
reload the repo cache so i did so, but then after opening software
updater, it didnt show me the updated list, i had to close it and then
reopen it in order for it to show the updated list. i'm assuming this
happened because software updater was running in the background when i
first opened it.

2) when running the software updater, it separated LibreOffice, Writer,
Impress, Calc, Math and Draw into separate entries, as if they were
separate applications, and if updating one wouldnt update all the rest.
(see attachment)

3) there were a number of optionally upgradeable libreoffice packages
(fonts-opensymbol, libreoffice-help-en-us,
libreoffice-presentation-minimizer, libreoffice-style-human,
libreoffice-ogltrans, libreoffice-pdfimport, uno-libs3, ure) that i
think should be consolidated either into their own group or underneath
'Other Updates' > 'LibreOffice'. (see attachment)

4) I ran the same upgrade on xubuntu 14.04, after previously installing
libreoffice 4.2.3 on it, and i think ubuntu flavours will benefit from
points 2 and 3. (see attachments)

Regards,
Jay Philips

On 06/20/2014 03:36 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 03:03:04AM +0400, Jay Philips wrote:
>> I would like to suggest the addition of 4.2.4.2 into the ubuntu's
>> trusty-updates repo as the 'Read Error' DOCX bug (fdo#77478) is still
>> present in 4.2.3.3, which ships with Ubuntu 14.04. I assume many ubuntu
>> and ubuntu-derivative users are going to be repeatedly submitting this
>> same bug as time goes by, as its a major dataloss interoperability
>> issue, as i've just encountered two such duplicates today.
> Please see:
>
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1219245/comments/14
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/1296715/comments/17
>
> You help in testing is appreciated.
>
> Best,
>
> Bjoern
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