[SRU] libreoffice 6.3.3 for eoan

[Marcus Tomlinson]

[Impact]

 * LibreOffice 6.3.3 is in its third bugfix release of the 6.3 line. Version 6.3.3 is currently in focal.
   For a list of fixed bugs compared to 6.3.2 see the list of bugs fixed in the two release candidates:
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/6.3.3/RC1#List_of_fixed_bugs
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/6.3.3/RC2#List_of_fixed_bugs
   (that's a total of 83 bugs)

 * 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.

[Test Case]

 * No specific test case, bugs fixed upstream hopefully come with unit/regression tests, and the release itself is extensively exercised upstream (both in an automated manner and manually) by a community of testers. Each minor release normally goes through two release candidates.

 * The libreoffice packages include autopkgtests, those should be run and verified to pass.

 * General smoke testing of all the applications in the office suite should be carried out.

[Regression Potential]

 * A minor release with a total of 83 bug fixes always carries the potential for introducing regressions, even though it is a bugfix-only release, meaning that no new features were added, and no existing features were removed.

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

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Marcus, or anyone else affected,

Accepted libreoffice into eoan-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:6.3.3-0ubuntu0.19.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-eoan to verification-done-eoan. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-eoan. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

Upgraded libreoffice from 1:6.3.2-0ubuntu2 to 1:6.3.3-0ubuntu0.19.10.1 from eoan-proposed in a clean and up-to-date eoan amd64 VM, and successfully ran test plan at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Process/Merges/TestPlans/libreoffice.

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted libreoffice (1:6.3.3-0ubuntu0.19.10.1) for eoan have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

libreoffice/1:6.3.3-0ubuntu0.19.10.1 (armhf)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/eoan/update_excuses.html#libreoffice

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libreoffice - 1:6.3.3-0ubuntu0.19.10.1

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libreoffice (1:6.3.3-0ubuntu0.19.10.1) eoan; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1851234)

 -- Marcus Tomlinson <email address hidden> Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:45:12 +0000

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for libreoffice has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.