Bug#731052: libreoffice-writer: Libre Office crashing, possibly related to plugins/extensions

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

severity 731052 misbehaving/broken extensions can meke LO unstable
tag 731052 + upstream
tag 731052 + confirmed
severity 731052 minor
thanks

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 02:00:12PM +0000, Nick wrote:
> Thanks - I have the Zotero Libre-office integration plugin (3.5.6)  and
> the Wiki Publisher (1.1.2) plugin installed.

OK.

> I was checking for updates there because I seemed to be getting no
> response from the Zotero plugin - I think I had originally installed
> that plugin via LibreOffice or Zotero, but I've now installed them

Both are bad when there's a packaged version. :-)

> through the package manager, and whatever was causing that problem seems
> to have now gone.

Good :)

So you either had a broken or incompatible version (zotero needed
various updates in the past)... That means build fixes, broken API etc
(thus LO has a conflict against older versions) etc.

> In view of not needing to check for updates this way I guess this is not
> a very important bug on debian systems, but problematic nonetheless for
> anyone who tries this!

Indeed. But broken extensions (or those not adapted to current versions)
are not in LOs scope.

Downgrading to minor. Not tagging wontfix as it will give a bad signal, but
that will be basically it, unfortunately.

Regards,

Rene