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Subject: Re: [RELEASE] Bug 119424 (Microsoft VC Redistributable) as blocker?
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On 6/4/12 2:16 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> It seems, reading messages on the Italian mailing list and forum, that
> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119424
> (which apparently would be fixed by including a newer version of the
> Microsoft VC redistributable) is effectively blocking the installation
> of OpenOffice in some circumstances (due to the bug, the related part of
> the installer tries to write in C:\ even when it is forbidden by policy).
> 
> Can someone who knows more check whether the redistributable upgrade is
> low-risk and can be included in 3.4.1? Those users are currently unable
> to install OpenOffice at all, if reports are correct.
> 

I agree that this should be addressed and it seems that the current
version was included by mistake. I propose that we fix this asap and we
should test it asap when we have dev builds for 3.4.1.

+1

Juergen