Bug#780253: Re Bug #780253 - libreoffice-writer: LibreOffice has no support for Google Drive

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 07:12:17PM +0100, Stéphane Aulery wrote:
> This bug has been fixed in Ubuntu.
> 
> Maybe the patch is transferable?

No. (Well, maybe.)

Looking at what they did:

  # Set up Google API keys, see http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys .
  # Note: these are for Ubuntu use ONLY. For your own distribution,
  # please get your own set of keys.
  # Permission to add API keys, from Paweł Hajdan, To chad.miller@canonical.com
  # msgid: CAADNaOFSFoch68NM1SGpCTRXqmspyKQgUPUtsF7SGRsRXiHZcg@mail.gmail.com
  # reused from chromium-browser 48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu1.1222
  GOOGLEAPI_APIKEY_UBUNTU := <snipped, but is publically visible in debian/rules >
  GOOGLEAPI_CLIENTID_UBUNTU := <snipped, but is publically visible in debian/rules >
  GOOGLEAPI_CLIENTSECRET_UBUNTU := <snipped, but is publically visible in debian/rules >
  CONFIGURE_FLAGS += --with-gdrive-client-id=$(GOOGLEAPI_CLIENTID_UBUNTU) --with-gdrive-client-secret=$(GOOGLEAPI_CLIENTSECRET_UBUNTU)

so no, we can't take that. Of course, we could get ours via the same way
- but then we also could post it somewhere on a public site, it's then no
secret anymore. It's as if we would put passwords publically visible.

Or I misunderstand the concept of a "secret" here, but I doubt that.

That said, I see that chromium-browser in Debian also has a debian/apikeys...

Regards,

Rene