Re: help needed with LibreOffice Java bridge on s390x/ppc64el

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

forgot to edit $SUBJECT. This is just ppc64el for now.

(While s390x also has broken bridges --without-java doesn't seem to help 
here unfortunately :/)

Regards,

Rene

Am 23.10.23 um 21:59 schrieb Rene Engelhard:
> Hi,
>
> since LibreOffice 7.6 (which added some more  tests which were manual 
> before to the automatic set) the testtools' bridge test fails:
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libreoffice&arch=ppc64el&ver=4%3A7.6.2-3&stamp=1697981409&raw=0
>
> See the discussion upstream in
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2023-September/thread.html:
> "new bridgetest failures in 7.6 on ppc64le "
>
> and continued in October
>
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2023-October/thread.html
>
> especially 
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2023-October/091058.html and
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2023-October/091059.html
>
> after which unfortunately noting important happened. (And I don't see a 
> patch either at Fedora git nor submitted upstream to fix this.)
>
> This is probably architecture-specific since the other architectures 
> *do* work.
>
> Can you have a look at it, too?
>
> (The workaround would be --without-java which I verified to work, but 
> this opens a can of worms. Not only disabling some (built-in) features 
> like the Report Builder but especially since there is Java-based 
> extensions (_all!) which then get into trouble dependency-wise/LO will 
> be blocked from migrating to testing maybe...)
>
> Regards,
>
> Rene