MX 17/18 Repository: The LibreOffice Thread

[Stevo]

We now have LibreOffice 6.1.5, rebuilt from the Sid source files, in our test repository. (6.0.5 is in main) I was able to use the slightly older 6.1.5~rc1 in stretch-backports as a template, plus see that that the debian/rules file generates different dependencies depending on the release and substitute our "mx" for "stretch-backports" there.

Please let us know how this new version installs and performs if you try it out so we can move it to main--thanks!

[kc1di]

installs and works great here. Wonder when 6.2 will be available? Thanks for the efforts.

[Fibogacci]

Installed well. I had no occasion for intense test yet, but with quick look it works good so far.

[Gerson]

Thanks @Stevo, I installed it and it works very well, much better than the 6.2 I had installed.

[alb]

Installed OK. I've been running Calc (the only part of LO that I use) for a couple of hours and all OK.

[Jerry3904]

Hmmm. Not a stopper for most people perhaps, but this version as well as 6.2 are screwing up table formatting. If I create a header row, give it a light gray background, center the text and make it bold, and then save it: the next time I open the page all that has disappeared. I use tables a lot so it is very annoying. May have to go back...

[MX-16_fan]

@Stevo:

We now have LibreOffice 6.1.5, rebuilt from the Sid source files, in our test repository. (...) Please let us know how this new version installs and performs if you try it out so we can move it to main--thanks!

Unfortunately this version has firefox-esr as a dependency. Can we get rid of that?

I'd guess that this depency has something to do with the LibreOffice team's (IMHO not all too wise) idea of making Firefox themes usuable in LibreOffice.


Greetings, and have a great week, Joe

[cyrilus31]

Libreoffice-help depends on firefox-esr, or chromium see https://packages.debian.org/buster/doc/ ... ce-help-fr

[Stevo]

Libreoffice-help depends on firefox-esr, or chromium see https://packages.debian.org/buster/doc/ ... ce-help-fr

Looks like firefox is also acceptable at present.

Well, it takes hours to build on even my six-core laptop, so maybe Mike or another packager with a more powerful desktop could rebuild it from our repo sources, since I'm tied up with Pale Moon for some time today. We might change the dependency to include alternatives of our palemoon, and other browsers, and also virtual packages such as x-www-browser, gnome-www-browser, and www-browser. That should cover just about all browsers.

I'm having the new Pale Moon builds also provide gnome-www-browser and www-browser already--this was another change that came up a few days ago.

[cyrilus31]

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