Bug#875688: libreoffice-report-builder: Design view is missing and existing reports won't run

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

found 875688 1:5.4.2-3
thanks

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 04:04:54PM +0100, MAG4 Piemonte wrote:
> retitle 875688 Design view is missing and existing reports won't run
> tag 875688 - unreproducible

Interestingly, with 5.4.3 rc1 as in sid I can reproduce this, too.

> we confirm the problem upgrading LibreOffice to version 5.4.2-3.
> We test creating a new database and, as for John Talbut, there is no option to 
> "Create Report in Design View" so we change the title and delete the tag 
> unreproducible.

Confirmed. No idea why it worked for me in the past.

> We also find that between Apr 30, 2017 (5.4.0 freeze) and Aug 13, 2017 (5.4.1 
> freeze https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan there was only one 
> commit: Enable the Formula Wizard to display 255 argument fields
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/reportbuilder hoping it would 
> be useful to solve the problem ...

There's also "reportdesign" which is the C++ part.

Interestingly, it works for me in the 6.0 packages (didn't try alpha1,
but todays build), see https://people.debian.org/~rene/libreoffice/6.0/.

So for buster that will maybe sort itself out by time... ;) (5.4.x is not
a real option to ship in buster anyway given its timeframe of support. Even
6.0 has that problem.)

Regards,

Rene