Hi John,
If I were you I would forget about packaging LibreOffice 25.8.0 it has a bug where it consistently crashes if the user attempts to utilise the 'Tabbed' Interface. Bug report on the issue can be seen here: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167956 If you look at Comment 7 in the report you will see that the bug will be fixed in LibreOffice 25.8.1
Also see the comment by "buovjaga" in this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/libreoffice/comments/1mvm35q/libreoffice_latest... He says that release of version 25.8.1 will be accelerated. In all, it seems to me you would serve users best by skipping packaging LibreOffice 25.8.0
Hope this helps.
I think they'll push it out faster as a result.
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