Comment 61 for bug 992232

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wneff (wneff2) wrote : Re: [Bug 992232] Re: [needs-packaging] libreoffice-report-builder

Version 4 of Libreoffice has it fixed. All my reports work with 4

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Steve Cornell <email address hidden>wrote:

> I have used Ubuntu since Intrepid and out of fustration, tried the
> report builder in Windows 7. To my surprise, it worked fine with the
> database I use in Ubuntu
>
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> duplicate bug report (981665).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/992232
>
> Title:
> [needs-packaging] libreoffice-report-builder
>
> Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in “libreoffice” package in Baltix:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> After upgrading to ubuntu i386 12.04 and installing libreoffice
> 3.5.2update3 I saw the is no libreoffice-report-builder-bin extention
> any more. Although there is one in the experimental brance of debian
> http://packages.debian.org/experimental/libreoffice-report-builder. I
> can no longer work without reports as they don't open. I use
> libreoffice base as a frontend to a mysql database.
>
> This is not an SRU candidate due to the following outstanding issues:
>
> + To include report-builder in main:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/992232/comments/32
> The root of the problem is the Java-Maven-dependency-mess -- this makes
> it nontrivial to enable Report-Builder to be included in main -- I would
> need the help of the Java team to get that done in time.
>
> + To include report-builder in universe:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/992232/comments/35
> That would essentially mean rewriting the build system of the extensions
> it is currently build inside LO.
>
> WORKAROUND: In Precise only:
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-universe
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install libreoffice libreoffice-report-builder
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