I always have a hard time to review libreoffice SRUs that come with a new upstream version. It can take a whole afternoon.
I'll try to outline here what I do, and perhaps I can be given a suggestion on how to improve it, or take a different approach. a) debian/watch It doesn't work. So I have to manually download the upstream detached signatures, and verify them against the orig tarballs. Which also doesn't always work, due to repacking. So I also download the upstream tarball one more time, verify its signatures, then compare the upstream tarball with the orig one. b) multiple orig tarballs I have to repeat (a) for each of the additional tarballs, namely helpcontent2 and translations. c) The tarballs tarball This is a collection of tarballs that the upstream buildsystem downloads at build time, something we must not do in our builders. Here I extract the tarballs tarball, see which ones were updated from the previous version, and I find a way to verify that they match upstream. Sometimes each respective upstream project published a detached signature, so I can use that to verify. If not, I download from upstream again to compare with what is in the tarballs tarball. And, depending on the size of the diff, I actually review the diff of that upstream tarball. If it's too large, I resort to just checking the upstream release notes. I do all of that for each tarball that got updated in this tarballs tarball. d) yaru As I'm writing this, I don't remember how I used to check it, as I haven't gotten that far in the review yet. Looks like it comes from a git repository: https://github.com/ubuntu/libreoffice-style-yaru-fullcolor.git -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2103992 Title: [SRU] libreoffice 24.8.6 for oracular Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in libreoffice source package in Oracular: In Progress Bug description: [Impact] * LibreOffice 24.8.6 is in its sixth bugfix release of the 24.8 line: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/24.8#24.8.6_release * Version 24.8.5 is currently released in oracular. For a list of fixed bugs compared to 24.8.5 see the list of bugs fixed in the release candidates of 24.8.6 (that's a total of 31 bugs): https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/24.8.6/RC1#List_of_fixed_bugs https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/24.8.6/RC2#List_of_fixed_bugs 24.8.6 RC2 is identical to the 24.8.6 release * Given the nature of the project, the complexity of the codebase and the high level of quality assurance upstream, it is preferable to SRU a minor release rather than cherry-pick selected bug fixes. [Testing] * Upstream testing. Bugs fixed upstream typically include unit/regression tests, and the release itself is extensively exercised (both in an automated manner and manually). * A recent set of upstream's automated jenkins testing can be found here: https://ci.libreoffice.org/job/gerrit_248/1500/ * More information about the upstream QA testing can be found here: * Automated tests https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Testing/Automated_Tests * Automated UI tests https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/UITests * Regression tests https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Testing/Regression_Tests * Feature tests https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Testing/Feature_Tests * Launchpad testing. The libreoffice packages include autopkgtests that were run and verified as passing. Tested build can be found at https://launchpad.net/~ricotz/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+sourcepub/17068301/+listing-archive-extra * [amd64] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-oracular-ricotz-ppa/oracular/amd64/libr/libreoffice/20250321_183319_8b0e3@/log.gz * [arm64] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-oracular-ricotz-ppa/oracular/arm64/libr/libreoffice/20250321_203926_966c6@/log.gz * [armhf] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-oracular-ricotz-ppa/oracular/armhf/libr/libreoffice/20250323_154735_54c81@/log.gz * [ppc64el] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-oracular-ricotz-ppa/oracular/ppc64el/libr/libreoffice/20250323_185827_1bc84@/log.gz * [riscv64] not available * [s390x] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-oracular-ricotz-ppa/oracular/s390x/libr/libreoffice/20250321_183911_a4458@/log.gz * General smoke testing of all the applications in the office suite were carried out by going through the manual testplan as documented by: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Process/Merges/TestPlans/libreoffice * Packaging changes are staged at https://git.launchpad.net/~libreoffice/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/log/?h=wip/oracular-24.8 [Regression Potential] * A minor release with a total of 31 bug fixes always carries the potential for introducing regressions, even though it is a bugfix-only release, meaning that no new features were added, and no existing features were removed. * A combination of autopkgtests and careful smoke testing as described above should provide reasonable confidence that no regressions sneaked in. 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