Libreoffice source disappeared

[Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>]

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Hi,

I did a "guix pull" today and found out that I couldn't build my profile
because the source for LibreOffice 5.4.7.1 is missing.  It seems to have
been removed from the various mirrors.  I've fixed the LibreOffice
problem by bumping the libreoffice package to 5.4.7.2 in commit
7376ba4cd4d07b5640ab49acad371a8ef3f090bc.  Before doing this, I verified
that (1) it builds and (2) the LibreOffice programs still work when
installed.

The LibreOffice version scheme is described here:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan#Version_scheme

It looks like version 5.4.7.2 is supposed to be the 2nd release
candidate of the 7th bugfix release in the 5.4 series.  This appears to
be the ChangeLog going from 5.4.7.1 to 5.4.7.2:

ftp.cixug.es/tdf/libreoffice/src/bugs-changelog-libreoffice-5-4-7-release-5.4.7.2.log
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+ sw: handle cell background for BACKGROUND_PARA_OVER_DRAWINGS (bnc#778133) [Miklos Vajna]
+ bad-cast (ofz#7648) [Caolán McNamara]
+ update credits (rdm#2585) [Christian Lohmaier]
+ message box fonts corrupted in libreoffice (rhbz#1283420) [Caolán McNamara]
+ When overwriting a cell, new content is displayed on top of the old content until finishing the edit (tdf#100925) [Caolán McNamara]
+ DOCX import: lack of Word 2013-style increased spacing for paragraph with anchored objects (tdf#115719) [Miklos Vajna]
+ FILEOPEN DOCX: First paragraph has wrong top margin (space before) (tdf#116410) [Miklos Vajna]
+ DOCX import: table cell background is behind background shapes (tdf#116830) [Miklos Vajna]
+ Automatic text color in textbox does not consider fill style of shape (tdf#116925) [Miklos Vajna]
+ DOCX import: bitmap does not consume its relative size (tdf#116976) [Miklos Vajna]
+ DOCX import, shape with textbox: incorrect text area size when shape size is relative (tdf#116985) [Miklos Vajna]
+ Libreoffice command line interface is not opening cgm files (tdf#116999) [Caolán McNamara]
+ DOCX import: textbox of shape lacks its transparent background (tdf#117028) [Miklos Vajna]
+ Print Preview crashes on signed document (tdf#117039) [Katarina Behrens]
+ FILEOPEN: RTF: parser dont draw tables correctly (tdf#117268) [Mike Kaganski]
+ FILESAVE: Theme Colors inverted in drawings after PPTX roundtrip (black part turned to white) (tdf#84205) [Szymon Kłos]
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These changes seem minor, as expected.

Is there any reason we shouldn't just use the latest LibreOffice
release, which appears to be 6.1.0.0?

FYI, when I asked on the LibreOffice IRC channel, they told me that old
releases can be found here:

http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/5.4.7.1/src/libreoffice-5.4.7.1.tar.xz

Maybe we should add the "old" archives (and mirrors thereof, if any
exist) to the list of mirrors, so that when they remove a published
release, we have a chance of automatically fetching it from the "old"
archives.  What do you think?

-- 
Chris

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