I discovered that oosmoketest from Edgy runs fine. The checks for an installed openoffice were not made in that version with help of $is_package_smoketest. The attached patch puts the old behaviour back in place and adds the doSmokeTest procedure again.
** Attachment added: "Temporary fix" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6600700/smoketest.patch -- oosmoketest fails to run https://launchpad.net/bugs/89005 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs