Bug#887985: [libreoffice-mysql-connector] using mariadb, libreoffice-mysql-connector produces garbage in memofields

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

severity 887985 important
tag 887985 + moreinfo
thanks

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:47:50AM +0100, Elmar Dolgener wrote:
> Package: libreoffice-mysql-connector
> Severity: grave

Uhm, no. At least not per se.

> If you purge libreoffice-mysql-connector and install
> "mysql-connector-linux_4-3_x86_64.oxt" (from
> https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/mysql-native-connector)
> instead, you get a version "1.0.4_3", which is correctly working with
> mariadb also.

That one is probably built with an old mysql-connector-c++ and with
mysql instead of a newer one built against mariadb.

> Particularly as debian has recently switched from MySQL to mariadb, it
> would be necessary to upgrade the connector to a compatible version as
> well. Fortunately, they yet exist!

LOL, if you don't look closely, yes. If you look closely there's no
"upgrade".

That "mysql-connector-linux_4-3_x86_64.oxt" from above was done

4.3
Dec 22, 2014
LibreOffice 4.3
These are the mysql-connectors for x86 (32 bit) and x86-64 (64 bit) for linux.
LGPL-v3+ (GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3 and later)
final

So > 3 years ago, and only claims compatibility with LO 4.3 after all.

And I've no idea how/why they hacked up the version but what we build
out of LibreOffice currently is the current version.

rene@rpi3:~/tmp/core/mysqlc$ grep version ./source/description.xml
#<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <version value="1.0.2" />
         <OpenOffice.org-minimal-version value="3.3" d:name="OpenOffice.org 3.3"/>

Regards,

Rene