The biggest issue with this, is that the error when someone tries to open one of his old documents doesn't make any sense when this package is missing. OpenOffice.org will ask the user to select the filetype and fail in a weird way when the user chooses the correct format.
Since many users will be migrating to OOo from their previous office suite, it is very important they can open their old documents properly. It's a big problem this package is not installed by default. The summary is incorrect in that it is only needed for old OOo 1.x files. Quite a few other formats also need this package and since most documents are archived versions, converted versions aren't easily made. In addition, Ubuntu doesn't offer any mass-converter. It would be nice if ODF already dominated everything, but unfortunately the older formats are still very important. -- ooo-filter-binfilter not installed by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248851 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
