No support for OpenDocument texts when upgrading from 2.6

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Binary package hint: abiword

After upgrading from Karmic, Abiword was not able to open .odt files correctly, but seemed to consider them as plain text files. I discovered Open and Save dialogs did not even list ODT as a known type, nor many of the text format plugins can support (only .abw, .doc and a few were listed). Removing ~/.Abisuite fixed that.

So I think there needs to be a migration system to detect new plugins. A hack for Ubuntu could be to remove the directory, with the downside of loosing some data.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: abiword 2.8.2-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.31-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 16 16:01:27 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: abiword

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here.

Thank you for forwarding this upstream to abiword.

[msevior (msevior-gmail)]

This bug is caused by a failure to package the abiword plugins. In
particular the OpenDocument import/exporter.

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Charlie Kravetz <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since
> this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work,
> I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here.
>
> Thank you for forwarding this upstream to abiword.
>
> ** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu)
>   Importance: Undecided => Medium
>
> ** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Triaged
>
> --
> No support for OpenDocument texts when upgrading from 2.6
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/564722
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of AbiWord
> Stable Builds, which is subscribed to AbiWord.
>
> Status in AbiWord: Confirmed
> Status in “abiword” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: abiword
>
> After upgrading from Karmic, Abiword was not able to open .odt files correctly, but seemed to consider them as plain text files. I discovered Open and Save dialogs did not even list ODT as a known type, nor many of the text format plugins can support (only .abw, .doc and a few were listed). Removing ~/.Abisuite fixed that.
>
> So I think there needs to be a migration system to detect new plugins. A hack for Ubuntu could be to remove the directory, with the downside of loosing some data.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: abiword 2.8.2-2ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.31-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Apr 16 16:01:27 2010
> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
>  PATH=(custom, user)
>  LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: abiword
>
>
>

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

Martin: Could you elaborate more on that? What do you think Ubuntu devs should do? Plugins are shipped with the main abiword package now.

[msevior (msevior-gmail)]

Hi Milan,

Sorry I have no idea what is being shipped with Ubuntu. Certainly
abiword-2.8 has far better odt support than 2.6.x. I make development
builds of abiword all the time and odt support works very well. I use
abiword-2.8.4 several times a day for real work in Fedora 12 where odt
and docx support works fine. I wrote of what my guess of what the
issue was (no opendocument plugins) if it is not that I'm stumped.

Martin

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <email address hidden> wrote:
> Martin: Could you elaborate more on that? What do you think Ubuntu devs
> should do? Plugins are shipped with the main abiword package now.
>
> --
> No support for OpenDocument texts when upgrading from 2.6
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/564722
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of AbiWord
> Stable Builds, which is subscribed to AbiWord.
>
> Status in AbiWord: Confirmed
> Status in “abiword” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: abiword
>
> After upgrading from Karmic, Abiword was not able to open .odt files correctly, but seemed to consider them as plain text files. I discovered Open and Save dialogs did not even list ODT as a known type, nor many of the text format plugins can support (only .abw, .doc and a few were listed). Removing ~/.Abisuite fixed that.
>
> So I think there needs to be a migration system to detect new plugins. A hack for Ubuntu could be to remove the directory, with the downside of loosing some data.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: abiword 2.8.2-2ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.31-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Apr 16 16:01:27 2010
> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
>  PATH=(custom, user)
>  LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: abiword
>
>
>

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

Quality of Abiword's ODT support is not at stake here. The problem is that while the plugins are installed, they are not detected *until you remove ~/.Abisuite. Is it known that the list of plugins is statically saved in a file there? Should a command be run to update that list? That doesn't seem to be an Ubuntu-only bug to me.

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 10.04.4 Desktop reached EOL on May 9, 2013.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

I've tried recreating this bug with your release and was unable to, given the information you've provided. Please upgrade to the latest version and re-test. If the bug is still reproducible, increase the verbosity of the steps to recreate it so we can try again.

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