[Libreoffice] fdo#36843 and libadabaslo.so

[Francois Tigeot]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 02:00:45AM +0900, Takeshi Abe wrote:
> 
> In tracing a reproducible bug
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36843
> on a Debian squeeze box, I stumbled on missing 'libadabaslo.so' while
> 'libadabasuilo.so' is installed.
> Because LibO 3.3.2 came with both 'libadabasli.so' and 'libabadasuili.so',
> I am wondering whether something has changed expectedly or unexpectedly.

While investigating a similar issue on NetBSD, I discovered the libadabas*
file was hardcoded to be installed or not depending on the target platform
name.

This file is the Adabas D client library; a crippled version of the Adabas D
database was bundled with old versions of StarOffice (2000-2003 timeframe).

Back in June, I found out there was no evidence of this database engine
beeing used after 2004, so I disabled the installation of the library for
all platforms.

If no user is discovered then, all Adabas D code will certainly be removed from
the trunk after the first release of LibreOffice 3.5.

> Any suggestions?

I wouldn't think too much about it for now; the idea is to keep the client
code in-tree (but disabled) so that if someone who needs it discovers it
isn't there anymore with 3.5, it can be reactivated quickly.

-- 
Francois Tigeot