Exporting as ODT does not work, because org-odt-data-dir is set by default
to /usr/share/emacs/etc/org, while the relevant files are installed in
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/org-mode/etc/styles/

Either org-odt-data-dir should be set to the latter directory, or the files
installed in the former.

The correct value for org-odt-data-dir is actually

/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/org-mode/etc

(not …/styles as I previously said).

Hello Reuben,

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:

Wow, it seems no one saw this bug for quite some time...  I recently did
some Debian Emacsen Team uploads for org-mode, and I noticed that the
following are not currently installed in the elpa-org package:

  etc/csl/locales-en-US.xml
  etc/styles/OrgOdtContentTemplate.xml
  etc/styles/OrgOdtStyles.xml

however, emacs-common installs this:

  /usr/share/emacs/28.2/etc/org/OrgOdtStyles.xml

Do you know if the copy bundled with Emacs is sufficient, or if we
should be setting org-odt-data-dir to a value specific to elpa-org?

Regards,
Nicholas

I'm sorry, I don't know; these days I install org-mode manually from ELPA.
However, it would seem to make sense that elpa-org would get its own copy,
although at the same time, presumably that file doesn't change that often.

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:

Indeed!

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:

I can't reproduce this bug in trixie (nor bookworm, if I remember
correctly), so I'm marking it unreproducible.  Upstream Org-mode states
that they only support the last couple Emacs releases, so I think that
it's likely that an Emacs that is new enough for elpa-org will also have
necessary ODT-support files that are new enough, yes, this might not
always be the case, but a backwards-incompatible ODT change will require
a manual intervention for elpa-org to adapt to this hypothetical case.

Given that these xml files have not changed at all between the Emacs
shipped with bookworm and the current release of Org-mode, I think it's
reasonable to use upstream's fixed default 'org-odt-data-dir'.

I'm happy to see it works by default now!
Best,
Nicholas

[The following email didn't make it to this bug, because this bug was
still archived 12 Jun 2026]

    It looks like this bug was only incidentally resolved because
    emacs-common and elpa-org versions were close enough at the time I
    tested if the bug was still reproducible; this is why I couldn't
    reproduce the bug.  I'm working on a proper fix now!
    (12 June 2026)

It's now June 29th and I have a couple moments of free time to test to
fix.  If it looks good then I'll upload and this bug will finally be
properly fixed.

Cheers,
Nicholas

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
org-mode, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 809931@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> (supplier of updated org-mode package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:21:17 -0400
Source: org-mode
Architecture: source
Version: 9.8.6+dfsg-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Emacsen team <debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org>
Closes: 809931
Changes:
 org-mode (9.8.6+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * No longer exclude schema and other supporting files.  In Bug #809931,
     upstream indicates that the expectation is that we will ship an
     equivalently full-featured package to theirs, and the implication is
     that a newer version of org-mode should provide these additional
     support files because it is plausible that they did not exist at the
     time an old version of org-mode was bundled with Emacs.  Meanwhile, if
     OpenDocument-schema-v1.3+libreoffice.rnc and
     OpenDocument-schema-v1.3.rnc are in fact non-dfsg, then our emacs-common
     has a release-critical bug, because it provides them.
   * Exclude .gitignore which makes Debian patch management painful.
   * Drop elpa-org.postinst, which has not been needed since oldoldstable
     --or even earlier.
   * Drop org-mode.maintscript, because it has been more than long
     enough since elpafication that no one will have org-mode files in
     /etc/emacs/site-start.d.
   * Install csl, schema, and styles to the elpa-package-specific,
     Debian Emacs Policy-compliant location similarly to how upstream does.
   * Go one step further than upstream and make it work out of the box
     by providing a sensible default value for org-odt-data-dir using
     0002-Use-elpa-dir-for-org-odt-data-dir.patch (Closes: #809931).
   * New upstream release.
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