Bug#786762: libreoffice-core: PDF Export breaks transparent backgrounds

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

forwarded 786762 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84294
tag 786762 + upstream
tag 786762 + fixed-upstream
tag 786762 + patch
# mark fixed versions (testing/unstable/to-be-experimental) according to the bug
close 786762 1:4.4.3-1
close 786762 1:5.0.0~alpha1-1
thanks

Hi,

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 01:18:18PM +0200, Alejandro Lorenzo Gallego wrote:
> I've noticed that when exporting to PDF from libreoffice 4.3.3 (Stable version)
> the background of objects that ought to be transparent ( e.g. a frame with
> transparent background) get rendered with a solid background.
> 
> This bug has been acknolowdged in the upstream bug 84294
> (https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84294) and was solved and
> fix incorporated to the upstream 4.3.7 release.

Thanks for pointing to the bug/patch.

> As this is stable package, i don't know if the procedure would be to update the
> whole version to 4.3.7 or cherrypicking the fix.
> 
> The fix is detailed in this commmit:
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=2b32cb7a06e89a86e4a961541b453df31410c126
> 
> It is a very simple one-liner, so it should be possible to cherry-pick this in
> case changing the whole version is considered inappropiate for stable.

Version update is definitely inappropriate.
So the procedure would be a cherry-pick, yes...

Regards,

Rene