openoffice comes without thunderbird (Mozilla) Addressbook Driver (no libmozab2.so / libmozabdrv2.so)

[loeppel]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

There is also no openoffice.org-mozilla package - like the openoffice.org-evolution package.
In the default OpenOffice Install (from oo.org) there IS a Thunderbird Driver, why Ubuntu cuts it out? Is there ANY Reason to do this? Many people prefer Thunderbird over Evolotuin (cause its true crossplattfrom and many times faster than evolution).

Please Provide this support!!

To verify the Problem please search up the internet, many forums listed the problem and suggests to install the Binarys from OO.org.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

This happens because OpenOffice.org upstream uses a extremely old out of date version of Thunderbird and has not updated it to compile with current Thunderbird that is in Ubuntu.

[NoOp (glgxg)]

On 10/18/2008 01:27 PM, Chris Cheney wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 93546 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93546
>
> This happens because OpenOffice.org upstream uses a extremely old out of
> date version of Thunderbird and has not updated it to compile with
> current Thunderbird that is in Ubuntu.
>

Thats a rather interesting statement considering that the 'upstream'
OpenOffice.org versions works just fine (including OOo 3.0) with the
most current version of Thunderbird (version 2.0.0.17 (20080914)).

Perhaps you mean that the upstream go-oo/ximian/novell version that
Ubuntu uses is at issue instead? Please cite a reference to this being
an issue with OpenOffice.org.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I must not have made myself clear enough, the upstream build uses during build time a very old version of Thunderbird (as I understand it) which is why it works when built by them, as far as I know the version built by all Linux distributors (not just novell) does not work since they use a modern version of Thunderbird.

For a reference to this bug upstream (Sun) see the bug this is a duplicate of on Launchpad, there is a link to the upstream bug report.

[loeppel (loeppel)]

Yes but why Ubuntu is not able to add a Build specific Patch? Most of Ubuntu packages include own patches in the debian/patches dir (even OpenOffice). I don't think it is too hard to modify the files which fails to build with tb 2.0 / ff 3.0!

If this is really the case, EVERY modern Distri like Fedora, openSUSE, etc. have these Problem? So there have to be a solution.

Maybe someone should kill all these dependencies and port this SDBC provider to a lightweight lib like http://freshmeat.net/projects/morkparser/ (BSD Licence) [read only].

Additional Information: http://dba.openoffice.org/specifications/address_book_architecture.html

This are the reasons why Mozilla will not allow to call the Product in Debian Firefox, cause it maybe will NOT include all Features, so people get confused! The same here, such things should be avoided!! Building Software from source is great, but at least with such big Software Products it should be done in the way the developers suggested it (official Builds).

greets,
loeppel

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Yes, as far as I know _ALL_ Linux distributions (and probably all other recompiles of OpenOffice.org period) do not work with the Thunderbird addressbook and OpenOffice.org upstream doesn't seem to care enough to fix bugs like this.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Yes, as far as I know _ALL_ Linux distributions (and probably all other recompiles of OpenOffice.org period) do not work with the Thunderbird addressbook and OpenOffice.org upstream doesn't seem to care enough to fix bugs like this.

Also the last time a regular build of upstream OpenOffice.org was attempted without any ooo-build patches it wouldn't build at all on Linux distributions. I haven't tried it myself since it is a fairly large task but have heard about others (who are comptent) who tried to do so.