#1018991 libreoffice-writer: fileopen.pdf.lowriter-opens w/o password prompt, evince & qpdfview prompts password

Package:
libreoffice-writer
Source:
libreoffice-writer
Description:
office productivity suite -- word processor
Submitter:
jindam, vani
Date:
2025-08-08 14:19:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1018991#5
Date:
2022-09-03 01:57:46 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

* how am i opening pdf file:
 * run $ time /usr/bin/lowriter
 * ctrl+o
 * select desired pdf
 * select file type: pdf
 * click open

* the issue is with libreoffice, evince
and qpdfview are working correctly
* see ps(at the end) about how i installed
& configured debian sid

* download & open pdf file (1) [password:mupdf]
* pdf file opens w/o prompt, is this normal?
* evince & qpdfview prompts password

* version:
evince 43.alpha
qpdfview 0.4.18
LibreOffice 7.4.0.3 40(Build:3)
LibreOffice 7.4.1.1 40(Build:1)

(1) https://bugs.ghostscript.com/attachment.cgi?id=10111&action=edit

^^^^^^^^ ps:

* my os on android 9 device:
 ** install userland app, full upgrade
buster(default), dist upgrade to
bullseye, remove security from sources.list,
dist upgrade to unstable
 ** install nano & add disable recommended
packages
 ** installed: libreoffice-writer,
libreoffice-calc, mc, ghostscript,
qpdfview, evince, gnumeric, abiword,
gv, palemoon (.deb & its dependencies),
inkscape, openbox, default-jre

 ** very important :: debugging is
not possible

* there are also several files with
same issue, if patch is created & applied
to bug
  ** expect me to test in next dot
release or version
  ** i will also test other files, if
they have issues, i will create new bug

#1018991#10
Date:
2022-09-07 17:32:54 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

Am 07.09.22 um 15:54 schrieb jindam, vani:
No. Also not on any of your other bugs. The PDF "import" thingy is in
core, and in many cases PDFs will be opened in Draw anyway.

Not so dear submitter,

Aha.
Nonsense. There's arm devices out there.


STOP THIS F* MADNESS.


Debian is not LibreOffice upstream. Such bugs have to be fixed upstream,
not in Debian.

Report them there.


- Neither do I as the sole maintainer of libreoffice (remember, free
time and there's other stuff to do in life) have time to debug all this
what belongs upstream,

- Nor to report all this upstream without any sensible information.

This then will result in either lingering around until infunity or
requring me to play proxy (which I neither have time for)

Here in Debian this will just pile up without any action.


Regards,


Rene

#1018991#15
Date:
2022-09-07 18:06:47 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,
And also LibreOffice is not a PDF viewer or PDF editor. That PDF import
"feature" was one of the worst features even implemented, and marketing
and too big user expectations (as we see here) do the  rest.


Use PDF viewers to view PDFs. (You  compare already with evince, etc.
Use them.)


Regards,


Rene

#1018991#20
Date:
2024-04-17 11:53:46 UTC
From:
To:
Dear submitter,

as the package libreoffice has just been removed from the Debian archive
experimental we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1069123

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

#1018991#29
Date:
2025-08-07 22:12:16 UTC
From:
To:
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