LibreOffice SRU for Focal

[Brian Murray]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 03:32:07PM -0700, Brian Murray wrote:
> The unapproved queue of Focal currently contains an upload of
> libreoffice[1] which is "a bug-fix release of the 6.4 line"[2]. However,
> as I understand it this update switches to tracking a different upstream
> branch of LibreOffice. As such I'm not certain this still meets the new
> upstream microrelease criteria[3] which has been used for previous
> libreoffice SRUs. We certainly want to be able to update libreoffice for
> the LTS on a regular basis, but I'm concerned about whether or not the
> mimo branch is getting the same level of upstream quality assurance.
> 
> I know that sil2100 had some concerns about this change too[4] and I
> think we need to come up with a solution so we can continue to provide
> updates of libreoffice for the LTS.

Apparently, I have too many tabs open and didn't refresh the one about
the SRU where sil2100 recorded his thoughts.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1929999/comments/1

So we are also keen to hear better ideas than the two outlined in that
comment.

Cheers,
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Brian Murray