Bug#565692: Please allow the package to be upgraded even when OpenOffice is running.
Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1:3.1.1-14
Severity: normal
It's really annoying to start an upgrade of 300 packages, then
discover that it failed because OpenOffice was one of the 300 and it
detected a running session. This results in a dialog box telling me
that I need to stop the session and one button, "Ok", which causes the
entire install to blow up.
I'm assuming you must have had extremely good reasons for coding up
this behavior, so I won't ask you to remove the dialog. However, it
would be nice if there was a way to avoid having the install be aborted.
For instance, you could give this dialog a "Continue" button and an
"Abort" button that do what they say. I would be OK with "continue"
looping back if OpenOffice is still running; the main thing is that I
want to be able to kill the active session and continue the upgrade
afterwards.
Even if you keep the current scheme unchanged, it would be really
nice if you could at least change the text to "Abort" or "Abort Install"
so that it's clear that the install is aborting -- the first few times
I hit this message I skimmed the text and didn't realize that it was
actually fatal. (I don't know if debconf lets you do that, though)
It would also be nice if you could display the "ps" lines for the
offending process -- not everyone can remember that the OpenOffice
process is actually named "soffice".
(oh, and there's one other nasty side-effect of this dialog: if the
user has configured debconf to be noninteractive, they get a silent
failure with no explanation of what happened. I suggest emitting
some sort of error message explaining why the postinst is failing)
Daniel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii liblucene2-java 2.9.1+ds1-2 Full-text search engine library fo
ii openoffice.org-base 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii openoffice.org-calc 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii openoffice.org-draw 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii openoffice.org-filter-mobile 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii openoffice.org-impress 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii openoffice.org-java-common 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii openoffice.org-math 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii openoffice.org-officebean 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii openoffice.org-report-builde 1:3.1.1-14 OpenOffice.org extension for build
ii openoffice.org-writer 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii ttf-dejavu 2.30-2 Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu-
Versions of packages openoffice.org recommends:
ii openoffice.org-filter- 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii ttf-liberation 1.05.2.20091019-4 Fonts with the same metrics as Tim
ii ttf-mscorefonts-instal 3.0 Installer for Microsoft TrueType c
Versions of packages openoffice.org suggests:
ii cups-bsd 1.4.2-6 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii gcj-4.4-jre [java5-runtime 4.4.2-9 Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii gcj-jre [java5-runtime] 4:4.3.4-1 Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.9-3 FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.17-2 GStreamer plugins from the "bad" s
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.25-7 GStreamer plugins from the "base"
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.17-1 GStreamer plugins from the "good"
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.13-2 GStreamer plugins from the "ugly"
pn hunspell-dictionary <none> (no description available)
ii iceape-browser 2.0.1-1 Iceape Navigator (Internet browser
ii iceweasel 3.5.6-1 lightweight web browser based on M
ii imagemagick 7:6.5.8.3-1 image manipulation programs
ii java-gcj-compat [java5-run 1.0.80-5.1 Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.6.1-1 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libpaper-utils 1.1.23+nmu1 library for handling paper charact
ii libsane 1.0.20-13 API library for scanners
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.5-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii menu 2.1.42 generates programs menu for all me
ii myspell-en-us [myspell-dic 1:3.2.0~rc2-1 English_american dictionary for my
pn openclipart-openoffice.org <none> (no description available)
ii openjdk-6-jre [java5-runti 6b17~pre3-1 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo
pn openoffice.org-gnome | ope <none> (no description available)
pn openoffice.org-help-3.1 <none> (no description available)
pn openoffice.org-hyphenation <none> (no description available)
pn openoffice.org-l10n-3.1 <none> (no description available)
ii openoffice.org-thesaurus-e 1:3.2.0~rc2-1 English Thesaurus for OpenOffice.o
ii pstoedit 3.45-8 PostScript and PDF files to editab
ii unixodbc 2.2.11-21 ODBC tools libraries
Versions of packages openoffice.org-core depends on:
ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.10.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.19.7-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libdb4.8 4.8.26-1 Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [
ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-9 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.25-7 GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.25-4+b1 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.6-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.8-5 spell checker and morphological an
ii libhyphen0 2.4-6 ALTLinux hyphenation library - sha
ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libicu42 4.2.1-3 International Components for Unico
ii libjpeg62 6b-15 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.17-2.1 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libneon27-gnutls 0.29.0-1 An HTTP and WebDAV client library
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.2-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.5-1 Network Security Service libraries
ii librdf0 1.0.10-1 Redland Resource Description Frame
ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libstlport4.6ldbl 4.6.2-7 STLport C++ class library
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 2:1.1.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1-2 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.7.6.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-2 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.5-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-1 XSLT processing library - runtime
ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii libxtst6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 Testing -- Resource extension
ii openoffice.org-common 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii ttf-opensymbol 1:3.1.1-14 OpenSymbol TrueType font
ii ure 1.5.1+OOo3.1.1-14 OpenOffice.org UNO runtime environ
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages openoffice.org-writer depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-9 GCC support library
ii libicu42 4.2.1-3 International Components for Unico
ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libstlport4.6ldbl 4.6.2-7 STLport C++ class library
ii libwpd8c2a 0.8.14-1 Library for handling WordPerfect d
ii libwps-0.1-1 0.1.2-1 Works text file format import filt
ii openoffice.org-base-co 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii ure 1.5.1+OOo3.1.1-14 OpenOffice.org UNO runtime environ
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages openoffice.org-calc depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-9 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libstlport4.6ldbl 4.6.2-7 STLport C++ class library
ii lp-solve 5.5.0.13-7 Solve (mixed integer) linear progr
ii openoffice.org-base-co 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii ure 1.5.1+OOo3.1.1-14 OpenOffice.org UNO runtime environ
Versions of packages openoffice.org-base depends on:
ii gcj-4.4-jre [java5-run 4.4.2-9 Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii gcj-jre [java5-runtime 4:4.3.4-1 Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii java-gcj-compat [java5 1.0.80-5.1 Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii libc6 2.10.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-9 GCC support library
ii libhsqldb-java 1.8.0.10-6 Java SQL database engine
ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libstlport4.6ldbl 4.6.2-7 STLport C++ class library
ii openjdk-6-jre [java5-r 6b17~pre3-1 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo
ii openoffice.org-base-co 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii openoffice.org-java-co 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii ure 1.5.1+OOo3.1.1-14 OpenOffice.org UNO runtime environ
Versions of packages openoffice.org-impress depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-9 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libstlport4.6ldbl 4.6.2-7 STLport C++ class library
ii openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii openoffice.org-draw 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii ure 1.5.1+OOo3.1.1-14 OpenOffice.org UNO runtime environ
Versions of packages openoffice.org-math depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-9 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libstlport4.6ldbl 4.6.2-7 STLport C++ class library
ii openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-14 full-featured office productivity
ii ure 1.5.1+OOo3.1.1-14 OpenOffice.org UNO runtime environ
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