During my upgrade from oneiric to precise, I got the error message in the attached screen capture. The package also told me that I'd changed a shell script as well, and offered to attach THAT to this bug (and I accepted).
It was the only interruption in my cross-distro upgrade, and I almost never run libreoffice. Maybe half a dozen times in the 3-year history of this laptop.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libreoffice-common 1:3.5.0~beta2-2ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-14.23-generic 3.2.3
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 6 11:40:34 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-06 (0 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.libreoffice.soffice.sh: 2009-04-14T08:26:14
The file attached does not differ from the one expected. Has there anything tweaked the file permissions in /etc, or something? Some backup solution.
FWIW, this bug is very unique -- it hasnt happened elsewhere AFAIK.