Bug#840087: libreoffice-draw: does not compress PDFs in the latest version
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On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 15:53:48 +0200
Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 03:10:47PM +0200, Andreas Glaeser wrote:
> > If I am getting things correctly, the backported version is identical with the one in
> > Stretch/testing, so the same bug would be there, it migrated there in fact from
> > unstable
>
> In this case, yes..
>
> Other bugs can be only appearing on backports.
>
This one does not, I have just checked that, in a KVM-VM, see there:
840720@bugs.debian.org
> And no, it is not identical. If it was there was no need for a backport. It's a rebuild
> (with changed dependencies and any adaptions needed) to work in stable.
> (And it's from testing, not unstable.)
>
> > and if nobody complains or otherwise nobody feels responsible to react to the report,
> > it will inevitably migrate to stable.
>
> Yes, the testing version. Not *-backports. And that only on the next release.
> -backports is not a staging ground for updates in "real" stable. It's separate.
>
Ah-ha !
> > > > there appeared a new version of the LibreOffice suite from Backports today.
> > > > LibreOffice-Draw fails to compress multipage-PDFs, it just makes a copy of the
> > > > original document, regardless of the quality- and other settings.
> > > > I use this function quite frequently, so I can tell, the problem appeared
> > > > _today_.
> > >
> > > So between 5.1.5 and 5.2.2. Very helpful. Another reason why bug reporting
> > > should be done on sid, so one knows what happens when, not only when the
> > > thing is (supposedly) stable enough to get into backports.
> > >
> > Sorry, I am not using unstable, I never have in fact, I think the version in testing
> > is usually new enough, except, there is currently a freeze-phase on the
> > testing-branch.
>
> No, there isn't a freeze yet in testing. That only starts in some time. If there was,
> 5.2.2 would not have migrated there in the first place and thus there wouldn't be a
> backport of 5.2.2 anyways.
>
Yeah, anyway, the problem exists in Stretch, it has nothing to do with
stable-dependencies vs. testing-dependencies:
> user@stretchtst:~$ aptitude show libreoffice
> Package: libreoffice
> Version: 1:5.2.2~rc2-2
> > > Anyway: When looking in LOs Bugzilla I see
> > > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101563
> > > (do you use linked images?)
> > > and
> > > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99303
> > > (which isn't very useful.)
> > >
> > > based on theupstream reports I set the version accordingly to a existing
> > > version. (And tag it moreinfo.)
> > >
> > Was this enough info or not??
>
> No, since you didn't answer any question here. E.g. the question in the cited
> part above.
>
Now this should really satisfy your needs for INFO, I will tag the report 'UPSTREAM' now.
Greetings
A.
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