[SRU] libreoffice 7.5.6 for lunar

[Rico Tzschichholz]

[Impact]

 * LibreOffice 7.5.6 is in its sixth bugfix release of the 7.5 line:
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/7.5#7.5.6_release

 * Version 7.5.5 is currently released in lunar. For a list of fixed bugs compared to 7.5.5 see the list of bugs fixed in the release candidates of 7.5.6 (that's a total of 53 bugs):
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.5.6/RC1#List_of_fixed_bugs
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.5.6/RC2#List_of_fixed_bugs

     7.5.6 RC2 is identical to the 7.5.6 release

 * 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_75/1671/

  * 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 can be found at https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/libreoffice-prereleases/+sourcepub/15135055/+listing-archive-extra
    * [amd64] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-lunar-libreoffice-libreoffice-prereleases/lunar/amd64/libr/libreoffice/20230901_205756_d4783@/log.gz
    * [arm64] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-lunar-libreoffice-libreoffice-prereleases/lunar/arm64/libr/libreoffice/20230902_020105_e2774@/log.gz
    * [armhf] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-lunar-libreoffice-libreoffice-prereleases/lunar/armhf/libr/libreoffice/20230901_185845_d6d5b@/log.gz
    * [ppc64el] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-lunar-libreoffice-libreoffice-prereleases/lunar/ppc64el/libr/libreoffice/20230901_174418_b7c30@/log.gz
    * [riscv64] not available
    * [s390x] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-lunar-libreoffice-libreoffice-prereleases/lunar/s390x/libr/libreoffice/20230901_201014_90e5e@/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 minor release with a total of 53 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.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Hello Rico, or anyone else affected,

Accepted libreoffice into lunar-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/4:7.5.6-0ubuntu0.23.04.1 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-lunar to verification-done-lunar. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-lunar. 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.

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

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted libreoffice (4:7.5.6-0ubuntu0.23.04.1) for lunar have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

libreoffice/4:7.5.6-0ubuntu0.23.04.1 (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/lunar/update_excuses.html#libreoffice

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

Thank you!

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

Upgraded libreoffice from 4:7.5.5-0ubuntu0.23.04.1 to 4:7.5.6-0ubuntu0.23.04.1 from lunar-proposed in a clean and up-to-date lunar amd64 VM, and successfully ran test plan at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Process/Merges/TestPlans/libreoffice.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

ACK on releasing this one day early. Given the test results, I don't see a benefit from another day of aging, which, given the Friday rule, would actually push this release to next monday.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libreoffice - 4:7.5.6-0ubuntu0.23.04.1

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libreoffice (4:7.5.6-0ubuntu0.23.04.1) lunar; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #2033643)

  [ Rene Engelhard ]
  * debian/rules:
    - fix install of template(s) on bn-IN
  * debian/patches/dp_platform-riscv64-and-loongarch64.diff: actually make
    riscv64 and loongarch64 known to "the deployment"
  * debian/patches/fix-riscv64-bridges.diff: as name says; from
    upstream master
  * debian/patches/bash-completion-updates.diff: add pages to lowriters bash
    completion
  * debian/patches/disable-flaky-tests.diff: actually testTdf146346 just looks
    flaky

 -- Rico Tzschichholz <email address hidden> Thu, 31 Aug 2023 13:02:26 +0200

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

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.