Juergen, Is this anyplace we can record this important known issues and let end user aware it? Like release notes or somethings else like technical note etc?
Best regards, Lily 2012/4/10 Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]> > On 4/10/12 4:33 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > >> Hi Lily, >> >> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:20:50AM +0800, xia zhao wrote: >> >>> Ariel, >>> >>> Do you means user have to remove the old packages manually? >>> >> >> I don't mean anything, I'm just describing the situation: that's the way >> I has been working since OOo 3.0.0 >> >> It isn't reasonable for end users. >>> >> >> Yes. Quite strange nobody seemed to complained about it (I haven't found >> previous bug reports about it). >> >> Though keeping the old package is default behavior, I couldn't understand >>> the reason. >>> >> >> Me neither. >> May be this was the design behind the 3 layer OOo, I've no idea. >> >> If just want to keeping the previous configuration etc, is it >>> possible to split and erase other packages? >>> >>> No matter which reason, back to the upgrade problem, we need find one way >>> to resolve the couldn't launch or crash problem. >>> >> >> Looking at the backtrace, the might have been introduced by changes on >> the extension handling, but I'm just guessing (I don't have a build with >> debugging symbols right now). >> >> > I agree that the issue is not nice and also happended in earlier versions, > at least the desktop integration part. > > The extension problem can be related to the changes we made in the > extension manager... I assume it will take some time to find a good > solution. > > I am no expert in this area but would it be possible to define a meta > package that do some clean unintall of older basis packages and desktop > integrations? > > For the future we should rework the 3 layer office asap and should ensure > that we can do a smooth and always working upgrade installation. > > For now we have at least a workaround of a manually uninstall if the meta > package wouldn't work. > > Just an idea > > Juergen > > > >
