[BPO] libreoffice 7.4.4 for jammy

[Rico Tzschichholz]

[Impact]

 * LibreOffice 7.4.4 is in its forth bugfix release of the 7.4 line:
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/7.4#7.4.4_release

 * This source packages matches the proposed SRU for kinetic handled at
     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/2001911
   and its backport is currently provided by the LibreOffice Fresh PPA at
     https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages

 * LibreOffice 7.3.7 (EOL since November 30, 2022) is currently released in jammy.

 * Given the nature of the project, the complexity of the codebase and the high level of quality assurance upstream, it is preferable to SRU a minor release rather than cherry-pick selected bug fixes.

[Scope]

 * Backport of https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:7.4.4-0ubuntu0.22.10.1

 * Backport target is Jammy/22.04 LTS only to provide an official build of a more recent upstream version of LibreOffice

[Testing]

 * Upstream testing. Bugs fixed upstream typically include unit/regression tests, and the release itself is extensively exercised (both in an automated manner and manually).

  * A recent set of upstream's automated jenkins testing can be found here:
    https://ci.libreoffice.org/job/gerrit_74/1542/

  * More information about the upstream QA testing can be found here:
    * Automated tests
      https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Testing/Automated_Tests
    * Automated UI tests
      https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/UITests
    * Regression tests
      https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Testing/Regression_Tests
    * Feature tests
      https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Testing/Feature_Tests

 * Launchpad testing. The libreoffice packages include autopkgtests that were run and verified as passing.
   Tested build at https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+sourcepub/14441833/+listing-archive-extra

    * [amd64] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-jammy-libreoffice-ppa/jammy/amd64/libr/libreoffice/20230117_121308_55f21@/log.gz
    * [arm64] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-jammy-libreoffice-ppa/jammy/arm64/libr/libreoffice/20230117_004531_c08ab@/log.gz
    * [armhf] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-jammy-libreoffice-ppa/jammy/armhf/libr/libreoffice/20230117_192827_df4b4@/log.gz
    * [ppc64el] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-jammy-libreoffice-ppa/jammy/ppc64el/libr/libreoffice/20230116_230929_28cc3@/log.gz
    * [s390x] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-jammy-libreoffice-ppa/jammy/s390x/libr/libreoffice/20230117_034834_09f33@/log.gz

 * General smoke testing of all the applications in the office suite were carried out by going through the manual testplan as documented by: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Process/Merges/TestPlans/libreoffice

[Regression Potential]

 * A combination of autopkgtests and careful smoke testing as described above should provide reasonable confidence that no regressions sneaked in.

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

ricotz, please upload fixed 7.4.4 build with crash fix for https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153059 into ppa:libreoffice/ppa too, because Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04 users now use buggy 7.4.4.2 release :(
See issue LP:2003735

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

The s390 build seems completely broken, most likely due to no fault of the libreoffice package; the infrastructure seems to be broken, as it repeatedly fails to build and also fails to produce any build log.

@ricotz do you want to mark this as fix-released since the other archs are completed and published?

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

Yes, the s390x builder are quire unhappy for some time. So I agree there is no point to keep this open.