[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1058555: [Help] Missing proper Build-Depends from libreoffice (Wass: Bug#1058555: parallel: FTBFS: /usr/bin/install: cannot stat './parallel_cheat_bw.pdf': No such file or directory)

[Rene Engelhard]

Hi,

Am 13.12.23 um 16:19 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> Control: tags -1 help
>
> Am Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 09:52:48PM +0100 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum:
>>> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat './parallel_cheat_bw.pdf': No such file or directory
> This file is (re-)created via
>     libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf parallel_cheat_bw.fodt
>
> Formerly this worked with the only Build-Depends
> libreoffice-writer-nogui.  Possibly since latest upgrade of
> libreoffice suite I had to add the following Build-Depends:
>
>     libreoffice-java-common, ure-java, default-jre-headless
I don't see why. Writer document conversion doesn't need Java.
> I admit the fact that default-jre-headless is no dependency of
> libreoffice-java-common smells like a bug in the dependencies but well,
> I have not enough insight here.

No, data shouldn't depend on a JRE. Neither should libraries per Java 
policy anyway.

> Unfortunately this is not sufficient to recreate the pdf. I rather get
>
> /build/parallel-20231122+ds/src # libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf parallel_cheat_bw.fodt
> Error: source file could not be loaded
>
> inside the pbuilder environment where I'm building the package.
> However, if I try on my local (testing!) system I get:
>
> .../parallel/src(master) $ libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf parallel_cheat_bw.fodt
> convert .../parallel/src/parallel_cheat_bw.fodt as a Writer document -> .../parallel/src/parallel_cheat_bw.pdf using filter : writer_pdf_Export
>
> so the conversion is working.  This pretty much sounds like some
> additional missing build depends which is installed in my more
> or less functional desktop installation of libreoffice.  Rene,
> do you have some idea what Build-Depends might be missing in my
> pbuilder chroot to let the convert process work properly?

Probably you have -core installed? See

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1052052

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1058653


Regards,


Rene

> Kind regards
>      Andreas.
>