On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 06:57:30PM -0700, Michael Peddemors wrote: > Wasn't subscribed when I sent this, so not sure it hit the list..
It did, and Jan sent you a brief reply. http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice is your friend. > Has anyone seen these issues? Not directly > And does anyone know when an update to oo for > stable is scheduled again? Stable what? OOo or Debian? > We still can't save a lot of files to excel97 > format, and edtting existing excle97 docs, and hitting save causes crashes.. We have limited time to deal with bugreports ourselves and there is a long queue of issues to be looked at already. Items which we cannot reproduce easily ourselves, especially if they appear to be upstream issues, tend to take a while and just sit until someone gets round to an intensive bug hunting session. However, there are several things that can be done to help speed up the process. It is important to determine if the problem is specific to the Debian packages or not. If it is a general upstream problem (and >90% generally are upstream problems), a bug report can be filed in the upstream database (if there is not one already there), where it is more likely to be looked at by someone who knows the code. With 70,000+ source files in OOo alone, the Debian team is simply not equiped to deal with all bugreports ourselves. You can determine whether the problem is specific to our packages by trying to reproduce on an installation from an official .tar.gz binary. If the behviour of the Debian packages is different to the official version, we need to know this and details of how to reproduce it. I would guess that the file import/export problems are not Debian-specific and the upgrade problem is specific to Debian, because upstream does not support upgrading at all and so we implemented it in our scripts: > We had a little problem similar to this upgrading to 1.0.2, but solved it for > those users by deleting the ~/.openoffice/1.0.1 directory, and rerunning > setup for them, This is probably due to a problem in our upgrade script. We need detailed information how to reproduce this, and it would help if you would look at the configuration files yourself and try to find which differences cause the problem. > but this seems to be different.. > > <previous message to list below> > > Several issues arose when upgrading open office. We found that anyone with > an > old configuration in .openoffice/1.0.2 couldn't save in Word97 format anymore > without crashing, and even after removing 1.0.2 directory, and rerunning > setup, which creates the 1.0.3 directory, we still have problems saving some > files in Word97 format, and if we open excel97 documents, and change the > contents of a cell and save again, we get a crash. We are forced to > downgrade to 1.0.2 to be able to use the excel97 docs again. This is probably an issue that has already been filed and possibly fixed upstream. It would help if you could find out what has been said about this already in IssueZilla. Chris
