Version 1.4.3 cannot finalize OpenOffice 3.1 document

[Bart de Koning]

Binary package hint: bibus

Version 1.4.3.2-3 cannot finalize an OpenOffice 3.1.1 document in Ubuntu 9.10.
Bibus needs to finalize a document to convert references for example [1][2][3] to [1-3], and also to open the locked state of the reference list for manual editing. Unfortunately the version that is at the moment in the ubuntu repositories cannot do that for the current version of OO Writer in the 9.10 reposititories.

Updating to the newest version (1.5.1) fixes the problem.
The newest version of Bibus (1.5.1) available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/bibus-biblio/ is able to do so.
This package can be installed, for me at least, without a problem on a 9.10 Ubuntu system, so there is not really a reason to wait for the next Ubuntu release with updating the version in the repositories...

[Jan Beyer (beathovn)]

Am Montag, den 22.02.2010, 20:08 +0000 schrieb Bart de Koning:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: bibus
>
> Version 1.4.3.2-3 cannot finalize an OpenOffice 3.1.1 document in Ubuntu 9.10.
> Bibus needs to finalize a document to convert references for example [1][2][3] to [1-3], and also to open the locked state of the reference list for manual editing. Unfortunately the version that is at the moment in the ubuntu repositories cannot do that for the current version of OO Writer in the 9.10 reposititories.
>
> Updating to the newest version (1.5.1) fixes the problem.
> The newest version of Bibus (1.5.1) available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/bibus-biblio/ is able to do so.
> This package can be installed, for me at least, without a problem on a 9.10 Ubuntu system, so there is not really a reason to wait for the next Ubuntu release with updating the version in the repositories...
According to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports this may
not be possible.

But there was a fixed version 1.4.3.2-5 available in Debian, which only
(okay, mainly) addresses this issue. It seems, nobody cared to get it
into Ubuntu. If you like, you can give it a try. For your convenience,
I attached the relevant diffs between bibus 1.4.3.2-3 and 1.4.3.2-5.
Unfortunately, I cannot assist you in this, as I am not familiar with
the Ubuntu procedures.

Good luck.

Jan
(Debian maintainer for bibus)

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[Bart de Koning (bratdaking)]

Thank, unfortunately I cannot patch the current package in Ubuntu 9.10. In 10.04 they changed already to bibus 1.5.
Anybody that can upload these patches into the karmic repositories?

[Commoner (commoner51)]

This patch did not help me alone. Additionally I had to make the change suggested by siminm at

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1227442

"usr/share/bibus/bibOOo/bibOOoBase.py line 748 (pointed out by space_agent)

replace "private:stream" with self.model.getLocation()
Note: "private:stream" is a string in quotation marks, self.model.getLocation() is a function NOT in quotation marks"

After this finalizing works in my Bibus (1.4.) but it does not make a copy of the document. So before finalizing the new copy must be made manually.

By the way in bibus 1.5. finalizing did not work either in my Ubuntu Kamic + OpenOffice 3.1.

[FreeMinded (pascal-planetmages)]

In the upcoming Lucid everything seems to work as expected.

[William Hughes (whughes-nb)]

I had the same problem as Commoner using Bibus 1.5 on Karmic 9.10. Making the
change means finalize works. I am not sure what to expect from the copy. It does save stuff
but does not change the name of the file

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Karmic has long since stopped to receive any updates. Marking the Karmic task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".