reassign reassign openoffice.org severity 424500 minor retitle 421274 openoffice.org: Wrong error when opeing a StarOffice 5.2 document without filters installed merge 421274 424500 thanks Hi, tt-deb@kky.ttu.ee wrote: > Background: "apt-get install openoffice.org" does not install the > openoffice.org-filter-so52 package. I have not tried aptitude for the > same task. The following is valid when openoffice.org-filter-so52 This one's fixed in sid. (-filter-binfilter is installed) > When opening an Staroffice 5.2 (.sdw), the application presents the > user with a menu of file format choices. After selecting a suitable > format, the program refuses to import the file with the message: > "General Input/Output error". [...] > The program should report that the filter or converter is not > available, and perhaps suggest that the filter is available as a > separate package. Yes. See also #424500. Unfortunately that isn't that easy since splitting out the binfilters is not exactly supported upstream, but "wating" megabystes of stuff in -core for people who don't need the SO 5.2 stuff (and the other filters in the binfilters beginning with newer OOos) is not appealing either. Gr�gards, Ren�- .''`. Ren�ngelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' rene@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73
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