[SRU] libreoffice 7.4.3 for kinetic

[Rico Tzschichholz]

[Impact]

 * LibreOffice 7.4.3 is in its third bugfix release of the 7.4 line:
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/7.4#7.4.3_release

 * Version 7.4.2 is currently released in kinetic. For a list of fixed bugs compared to 7.4.3 see the list of bugs fixed in the release candidates of 7.4.3 (that's a total of 100 bugs):
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.4.3/RC1#List_of_fixed_bugs
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.4.3/RC2#List_of_fixed_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.

[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_74/1235/

  * 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.
    * [amd64] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-kinetic-libreoffice-libreoffice-prereleases/kinetic/amd64/libr/libreoffice/20221119_025653_ec91f@/log.gz
    * [arm64] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-kinetic-libreoffice-libreoffice-prereleases/kinetic/arm64/libr/libreoffice/20221119_074354_fc477@/log.gz
    * [armhf] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-kinetic-libreoffice-libreoffice-prereleases/kinetic/armhf/libr/libreoffice/20221119_023808_27800@/log.gz
    * [ppc64el] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-kinetic-libreoffice-libreoffice-prereleases/kinetic/ppc64el/libr/libreoffice/20221119_024545_1a3cc@/log.gz
    * [s390x] regressed and will need an expection, pending investigation
      https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152182
 * 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 minor release with a total of 100 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.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Rico, or anyone else affected,

Accepted libreoffice into kinetic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:7.4.3-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-kinetic to verification-done-kinetic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-kinetic. 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.

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

Unexpected build failures on amd64/arm64 are fixed by https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/+bug/1998444

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

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted libreoffice (1:7.4.3-0ubuntu0.22.10.1) for kinetic have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

libreoffice/1:7.4.3-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 (s390x)

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/kinetic/update_excuses.html#libreoffice

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

Thank you!

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

Upgraded libreoffice from 1:7.4.2~rc3-0ubuntu1 to 1:7.4.3-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 from kinetic-proposed in a clean and up-to-date kinetic amd64 VM, and successfully ran test plan at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Process/Merges/TestPlans/libreoffice.

autopkgtests on s390x regressed and will need an exception.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

That dep8 failure on s390x is unfortunate. I saw the upstream bug, and it would be nice to have a bit more investigation. libreoffice is used by other packages in the archive, and I worry that by letting a regression in via this SRU could affect others. For example, libreoffice tests are also run when glib, dbus, apparmor, and others, are updated.

I know these tests also take a long time to run unfortunately :/

Could this failure be investigated a bit more perhaps? Is it also happening in debian? Other distros that also ship it for s390x? Does it also happen in lunar? I see 7.4.3 migrated in lunar at some point.

If you are convinced it's a very localized failure and that the SRU should proceed despite it, then please file an MP against the hints branch for kinetic at https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release/britney/+git/hints-ubuntu/+ref/kinetic stating the reasoning.

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

The failure is very localized and restricted to two python uno bridge tests.

https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-kinetic-libreoffice-libreoffice-prereleases/kinetic/s390x/libr/libreoffice/20221120_163829_d5cf2@/log.gz

This problem is not Ubuntu-specific and is happening on Debian as well, where s390x autopkgtest failures are ignored for a long time. See https://ci.debian.net/packages/libr/libreoffice/

I am not familiar with the syntax of that repository.

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

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted libreoffice (1:7.4.3-0ubuntu0.22.10.1) for kinetic have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

libreoffice/1:7.4.3-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 (s390x)

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/kinetic/update_excuses.html#libreoffice

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

Thank you!

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:7.4.4-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 superseedes this, and unfortunately it didn't mention this bug here in the changes file, so it won't autoclose.