[Upstream] Writer saving .odt to .rtf duplicates hyperlink

This appears fixed, but they have not identified the specific patch:
I can confirm this is reproduced in 3.3.1, but cannot reproduced in 3.4 rc1.
Did we merged some patches possibly have this already fixed?

Attachment from FDO upstream bug.

Bryce Nesbitt, I am closing this bug because has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Oneiric Ocelot.

This is a significant bug in Ubuntu. If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please do steps 1 and 2 of the SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need to a developer's attention.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

Bryce, according to this report, you are not using the most recent version of libreoffice-writer for your Ubuntu release. Please upgrade to the most recent version and let us know if you are still having this issue. Thanks in advance.

On 08/30/2011 02:55 PM, Marcel Stimberg wrote:
> Bryce, according to this report, you are not using the most recent
> version of libreoffice-writer for your Ubuntu release. Please upgrade to
> the most recent version and let us know if you are still having this
> issue. Thanks in advance.
The "system updater" tells me I am up to date.
LibreOffice tells me I have:

LibreOffice 3.3.3
OOO330m19 (Build:301)
tag libreoffice-3.3.3.1, Ubuntu package 1:3.3.3-1ubuntu2

And the problem still happens and is trivial to reproduce.

Here are is /etc/apt/sources.list

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates universe

New test file, created from scratch. One hyperlink, saved to rtf.

Note upstream note:

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Yifan 2011-05-25 22:06:03 PDT
I can confirm this is reproduced in 3.3.1, but cannot reproduced in 3.4 rc1.
Both of my systems are SLED 11 sp1 i586.

Hi Cedric, Did we merged some patches possibly have this already fixed? Thanks for
reviewing!
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Bryce, I was asking because your initial report was still for 3.3.2 and it might have been that you did not have the update repository enabled. But your version is up-to-date. However, I can't reproduce the issue here (note that upstream confirms it for 3.3.1, not for 3.3.3). I open a document, chose "Insert -> Hyperlink" from the menu, enter "www.example.com" as a target and "hyperlink" as text, then "apply" and "close". Then I save as RTF (confirming that I really want to save as RTF) and get a file with just a single hyperlink… My result is attached.

Ok, I investigated a bit further. I can now reproduce the bug: It is necessary to have some text *after* the link, i.e. a document with "Link" works fine, a document with "This is a link" also works, but "This is a link with some text" shows the "doubling". Could you update the description so it fits the SRU guidelines (use "TEST CASE")? Do you happen to know whether it works in Ubuntu 10.10, i.e. wether it is a regression? For a SRU we'd also have to identify the upstream patch fixing this issue.

Marcel:
I don't appear to have control to do what you ask. In addiiton "Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) " closed the bug as invalid.
What's up?

This feature was fine in my last Ubuntu which was 10.04 LTS.

Please see comment #3 and do not undo the status. Marking Fixed Released.

I'm TRYING to do the steps to get this considered for backporting to 11.04.
Regressions are Ubutu's Achilles heel.

This bug is not "Invalid". It is reproducable, reproduced and verified.
You might decide to ignore it, but is a real one.

Bryce, these Launchpad bug messages are a bit misleading at times. The upstream bug in the freedesktop bugtracker has been marked as "invalid" because in launchpad no better translation of the status "WORKSFORME" exists (please don't change the upstream status, it will be reset automatically after a while). The Ubuntu bug status is still unchanged. What is missing in this bug report is:
1. A change in the bug description so it matches the SRU guidelines (you can change the bug description by clicking the yellow icon at the top right of the description) -- in particular, state that it affects the newest version (that was misleading for me, before) and use the "TEST CASE: " format
2. (very important) the bug needs a "nominate for series" for Natty, i.e. a specific bug status only for Natty. Unfortunately, neither you or I have the rights to do that (you have to be member of bug control). Perhaps you could ping someone at the #ubuntu-bugs IRC channel on irc.freenode.net to do it for you?
3. Someone has to identify a patch fixing the issue. I had a quick look upstream and it seems the RTF export has been basically rewritten for 3.4 -- maybe it is not possible to identify a single patch and a backport instead of an SRU would be more appropriate.

Unfortunately I do not have the time to delve into this problem much deeper -- I can imagine that the way this bug is handled is frustrating, fixing bugs in stable releases is always a somewhat tedious process, in particular for huge packages like libreoffice...