Hi Rene, On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 07:57:46AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Am 14.12.23 um 06:01 schrieb tony mancill: > > A FTBFS bug [1] cropped up in gpredict recently that appears to be to a > > change in libreoffice-writer-nogui. The build step that fails is: > > > > $ soffice --strace --writer --headless --convert-to pdf > > gpredict-user-manual.odt > > Warning: failed to launch javaldx - java may not function correctly > > Error: source file could not be loaded > > > > strace output shows a failed attempt to find libcuilo.so (shipped with > > libreoffice-core) just before "Error: source file could not be loaded" > > is output. Should libcuilo.so be included in libreoffice-core-nogui? > > No it should not because it is *common UI*. > > That LibreOffice upstream adds options and then let it bit-rot to the point > that that they don't work as intended without adding totally unrelated stuff > unfortunately is a fact. :( > > Here it is adding a dependency on UI stuff for something not needing UI.
Thank you for the explanation. (I didn't spend enough time digging into whether the library *should* be there, I only noted that it was missing.) > In the meanwhile I actually reget having added -nogui for this reason. Yeah, I can appreciate that it leads to confusion and potentially more work for you as a maintainer. > > For the time-being, we are working around this by using > > libreoffice-writer as the build-dep, > That is wrong imho. > > but the -nogui package should be > > sufficient and has worked in the past. > > Yeah. Or just adding libreoffice-core (since you *can* mix them.) See also > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1052052 Yes, that works. I had opted for libreoffice-writer because its transitive dependency set is only marginally larger (70MB) than libreoffice-core, and it allows me to specify a single build-dep related to libreoffice, but mixing them does result is fewer overall build-deps. (unstable-amd64-sbuild) apt-get install libreoffice-writer ... 0 upgraded, 560 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 372 MB of archives. After this operation, 1320 MB of additional disk space will be used. (unstable-amd64-sbuild) apt-get install libreoffice-core ... 0 upgraded, 545 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 355 MB of archives. After this operation, 1253 MB of additional disk space will be used. (unstable-amd64-sbuild) apt-get install libreoffice-writer-nogui ... 0 upgraded, 263 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 185 MB of archives. After this operation, 642 MB of additional disk space will be used. Thank you for the response and filing the bug upstream. Cheers, tony
