Source: winff
Severity: normal

Hi,

I just noticed winff - thanks to your bug report :):

I see

winff (1.6.2+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium

* Temporary home directory to run soffice (Closes: #759980)
* Build dependencies (for javaldx)
* Escape Dollar signs in file names (Closes: #1053373)

-- Peter Blackman <peter@pblackman.plus.com> Thu, 05 Oct 2023
10:00:00 +0100

in the changelog and chekced. Because that looked extremely fishy. It is.

Build-Depends-Indep:
libreoffice,
ure-java,
default-jre,

What for?

a) The javaldx warning is harmless unless you do run Java stuff. Which
you don't if you convert stuff to pdf. You can just ignore this and you
don't need to depend on Java stuff (which is not available on all archs)[1]

b) I don't believe you need libreoffice-base etc which gets pulled in by
the libreoffice *metapackage*.

rene@frodo:~/winff-1.6.3+dfsg/winff/docs$ ls *.od?
WinFF.ca.odt WinFF.es_AR.odg WinFF.nl.odt
WinFF.en.odt WinFF.fr.odt WinFF.pt_BR.odt

So you just need libreoffice-writer and libreoffice-draw. Tried in a
local build with libreoffice-writer and -draw 4:24.2.1-3.

(Actually libreoffice-writer-nogui and libreoffice-draw-nogui would
suffice but the fix for #1058653 is blocked by t64 transition. So let's
ignore that for now.)

Patch:

diff -Nru winff-1.6.3+dfsg/debian/changelog
winff-1.6.3+dfsg/debian/changelog
--- winff-1.6.3+dfsg/debian/changelog 2024-02-19 14:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ winff-1.6.3+dfsg/debian/changelog 2024-03-04 21:50:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+winff (1.6.3+dfsg-1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * only build-depend on needed libreoffice-draw, libreoffice-writer;
+ remove extraneous libreoffice, ure-java, default-jre
+
+ -- Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:50:28 +0000
+
winff (1.6.3+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium

* New Upstream release (Closes: #1053373) (Closes: #1061586)
diff -Nru winff-1.6.3+dfsg/debian/control winff-1.6.3+dfsg/debian/control
--- winff-1.6.3+dfsg/debian/control 2023-10-04 22:29:34.000000000 +0200
+++ winff-1.6.3+dfsg/debian/control 2024-03-04 21:50:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -10,9 +10,8 @@
lcl,
lcl-qt5,
Build-Depends-Indep:
- libreoffice,
- ure-java,
- default-jre,
+ libreoffice-draw,
+ libreoffice-writer,
Standards-Version: 4.6.2
Rules-Requires-Root: no
Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/pasca

Hi Rene,

Thanks for clarifying. Seems I can use libreoffice-draw-nogui, but need libreoffice-writer for now as you said.


Cheers,
Peter

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