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[Gretha <782406@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Key points ... (continued from #19)

(3) LibreOffice Compare Document is badly in need of fundamental
overhaul, radical improvement and proper fine-graining, and this also
includes the removal of its implicit exclusion of frames, footnotes,
headers, fields and other essential items of information contained in
documents.

I am attaching (see #20) a single random document which once more
illustrates these three points I am making.  Since LibreOffice Document
Compare is so bad that it in fact makes even this short document crash,
I can only salvage it in the form of three screen grabs.  I have
compiled these in a single png image with added explanation and
comments.  It very much saddens me that this presentation (#20) is by no
means an advertisement or recommendation for LibreOffice.

Open source software is an invaluable phenomenon.  However, it can only
make true and broad inroads beyond hobbyists and servers if the
developers, on the one hand, and those like us, on the other, who
promote it and actually put it in the workplace -- often in key
production-critical contexts -- work hand in hand and in sympathy to
effectively and efficiently resolve the issues reported by actual users
of the systems and applications.  We resolve almost all such issues in-
house, but some are elusive, defying practical work-arounds, and often
systemically rooted in key core components and applications.

We do our very best to support open source and to get it deployed
wherever suitable.  But when the effort proves one-way and when positive
feedback sincerely aimed to improve matters routinely falls on deaf ears
and is left unattended or, as in this case of LibreOffice, simply bumped
and dumped, then, I am very sad indeed to say, we are clearly on the
wrong track.

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Title:
  LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: libreoffice

  Comparing two files has reverted to the old OOo behaviour of flagging
  entire long sequences of paragraphs as different, when in fact they
  are actually identical except maybe for just one or two minor
  typographical differences.

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