Debian Bug report logs - #698063
libreoffice-sdbc-postgresql: Provide help text for Datasource URL

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Liam K Morland <Liam@Morland.ca>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: libreoffice-sdbc-postgresql: Provide help text for Datasource URL

Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 12:07:40 -0500

Package: libreoffice-sdbc-postgresql
Version: 1:3.5.4+dfsg-4
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

When creating a connection to a database, one must enter a "Datasource 
URL". No guidence is given for the format of text. It took me a while to 
figure out what is supposed to go there. A little bit of text like the 
following, appearing below the form control would go a long way to 
making this easier to use.

	Example: host=localhost dbname=<name of your database>

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libreoffice-sdbc-postgresql depends on:
ii  libc6             2.13-37
ii  libgcc1           1:4.7.2-4
ii  libpq5            9.1.7-1
ii  libreoffice-core  1:3.5.4+dfsg-4
ii  libstdc++6        4.7.2-4
ii  uno-libs3         3.5.4+dfsg-4
ii  ure               3.5.4+dfsg-4

libreoffice-sdbc-postgresql recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libreoffice-sdbc-postgresql suggests:
ii  postgresql  9.1+134wheezy2

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Message #10 received at 698063-forwarded@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>

To: Lionel Elie Mamane <lmamane@debian.org>

Cc: Liam K Morland <Liam@Morland.ca>, 698063-forwarded@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#698063: libreoffice-sdbc-postgresql: Provide help text for Datasource URL

Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:13:02 +0100

severity  698063 wishlist
thanks

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:07:40PM -0500, Liam K Morland wrote:
> Severity: normal

Ehm, no, imho this a wish -> wishlist.

> When creating a connection to a database, one must enter a "Datasource 
> URL". No guidence is given for the format of text. It took me a while to 

Google "postgresql datasource url"? The first link incidentially is already
for Base. So it can't have taken you more than a few seconds if you did it right ;)

> figure out what is supposed to go there. A little bit of text like the 
> following, appearing below the form control would go a long way to 
> making this easier to use.
> 
> 	Example: host=localhost dbname=<name of your database>

Forwarding to the (de-facto) maintainer of the sdbc-postgresql code upstream.
Lionel, what do you think?

Regards,

Rene

Message #15 received at 698063@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu>

To: Liam K Morland <Liam@Morland.ca>

Cc: 698063@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: libreoffice-sdbc-postgresql: Provide help text for Datasource URL

Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 14:09:32 +0100

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:07:40PM -0500, Liam K Morland wrote:

> When creating a connection to a database, one must enter a
> "Datasource URL". No guidence is given for the format of text. (...)
> A little bit of text like the following, appearing below the form
> control would go a long way to making this easier to use.

Yes, that is correct and a valid wish. Among with an example, the text
should refer people to
 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING
 (with a note that only the "older" keyword/value variant is
 supported; true URIs are supported in PostgreSQL only since version
 9.2 and the connector has not been updated yet)
 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-PARAMKEYWORDS

This is probably best done in the context of
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43369
(which would be even better) but it is a good first step on its own :)

-- 
Lionel

Message #24 received at 698063-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stéphane Aulery <lkppo@free.fr>

To: 698063-done@bugs.debian.org, Liam@Morland.ca

Subject: Re: libreoffice-sdbc-postgresql: Provide help text for Datasource URL

Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 01:11:15 +0100

Hello,

This bug [1] have been forwarded to upstream [2].

If you wish to continue supporting your LO improvement request, please
refer to the upstream report [2].

Thanks for your report.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=698063
[3] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43369

Regards,

-- 
Stéphane Aulery

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