https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169483
Bug ID: 169483
Summary: Un-redirectable messages: Request back-port of .docx
-> .txt filter patch to 25.8.3.x
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 25.8.3.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: Linux (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: filters and storage
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
LO versions 25.* (but not 24.*) somehow emit messages directly to the terminal
(written to /dev/tty ?), so that they can not be suppressed by redirecting
stdout and stderr. This occurs when converting .docx to .txt.
This bug was introduced in 25.* and fixed in the 26.* series, but remains in
the latest 25.x release which is included in current Ubuntu (25.8.3.2).
It would be great if a backport patch release to 25.8.3 could be done to cure
this, so distributions like Ubuntu won't have to wait for 26.2 to get rid of
this problem. (Just to be clear, I am not speaking for Ubuntu; I just want to
be able to ask them to update their packages to libreoffice's latest stable
release, to make these un-stoppable messages go away as quickly as possible).
STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
1. If necessary, install 25.8.3 using
https://mirror1.cs-georgetown.net/tdf/libreoffice/stable/25.8.3//deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_25.8.3_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz
(download the tarball, extract the .debs within it, and then use "dpkg-deb -x
path/to/file.deb /test/dir for each .deb; then run
/test/dir/xxx/opt/libreoffice25.8/program/soffice)
2. soffice --headless --convert-to txt --outdir /some/temp/dir
/path/to/a/file.docx >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
RESULTS: A message appears on the terminal like
convert /path/to/a/file.docx as a Writer document -> /some/temp/dir/file.txt
using filter : Text
Overwriting: /some/temp/dir/file.txt
EXPECTED RESULT: Silence (messages are printed only to stdout or stderr, which
are redirected to /dev/null)
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