Bug#909152: libreoffice: Google Drive file listing fails with "General input/output error"

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

found 909152 1:6.1.1~rc1-2
thanks

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 02:31:21AM +0000, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
> This has previously been reported to upstream:
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117271 but in fact
> it works in upstream's version so they closed it and suggested reporting
> to Ubuntu, which was done:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1754400 and
> it seems they found a fix for their version:
> 
> > after we explicitly enabled the google drive API for the project that
> > holds the API key used in libreoffice (it was not enabled previously)
> 
> > From this I infer that distribution packages of libreoffice are using
> their own Google API credentials different from those of upstream, and

Of course, that's at least nominally a secret. And upstream doesn't give us this
secret (then it de-facto wouldn't be secret anymore given it has to be
in the source package somewhere to use it.)

> that an option needs to be enabled on these credentials to allow Google
> Drive access.

Hmm. Maybe.

CC'ing the chromium maintainers (where we get the id/"secret" from) -
- from /etc/chromium.d/apikeys...
Can you check whether said option is enabled for the id/"secret"?

Regards,

Rene