• Bug#1087383: libreoffice: does not start if a soffice.bin process is ru

    From Vincent Lefevre@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 22 16:10:02 2025
    The upstream repository has been archived a few weeks ago (March 31).
    And I can see that unoconv has been deprecated since 2021-11-12[*],
    i.e. more than 3 years ago. So it became completely unsupported
    upstream.

    [*] https://forum.jsreport.net/topic/2805/create-pdf-from-word-template-unoconv-deprecated

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  • From Vincent Lefevre@21:1/5 to Vincent Lefevre on Thu May 22 15:30:02 2025
    Control: found -1 0.7-2.1

    and now with the current unoconv version.

    BTW, I forgot to Cc the maintainer at the time of the reassign. :(
    I suppose that this new message should be sufficient. I'm keeping
    the contents below for this reason.

    On 2025-05-22 15:00:49 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
    Control: reassign -1 unoconv 0.7-2
    Control: retitle -1 unoconv should not use the default LibreOffice profile - can break LibreOffice with GUI
    Control: severity -1 serious
    Control: affects -1 libreoffice

    According to the upstream bug

    https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165417

    (Comment 1), LibreOffice is working as intended, and the issue comes
    from unoconv itself:

    "That tool itself shouldn't use the default LibreOffice profile - that
    would avoid interference between it and the interactive LibreOffice
    instance. But that is a bug of that tool."

    Since this has a major effect on a separate application (LibreOffice),
    I'm raising the bug severity.

    Note: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1087368
    makes this problem much worse, but this is an independent bug.
    Even if Debian bug 1087368 were fixed now:
    * An ongoing conversion would affect LibreOffice (with GUI).
    * The -l option permanently breaks LibreOffice (with GUI),
    i.e. as long as the server is running.

    It isn't even possible to choose a different LibreOffice profile from
    the unoconv command line (as a workaround).

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