My master document does not parses a sub master document

[JoséM.R.Amores]

Context information:

1. LibreOffice 4.4.1.1, Portuguese (also Spanish, German and English GB), Writer
2. Debian Testing, Portuguese

My problem:

I have a fairly complex master document that unifies several other documents and master documents.
It’s basic structure is something like this:

• everything (master document)
  • introduction (writer document)
  • other stuff (writer document)
  • chapters (master document)
    • chapter 1 (master document)
      • chapter 1 theme (writer document)
      • chapter 1 development (writer document)
    • …
    • chapter N (master document)
      • chapter N theme (writer document)
      • chapter N development (writer document)
  • conclusion (writer document)
  • index

Regardless of “why” did I created such a document, this structure was working very well.
However, when I upgraded my LibreOffice to 4.4.1.2 the document stopped to work properly, specifically, LibreOffice says that it cannot find the .odm files inside the parent master document, but if I try to edit one of them it opens it without a problem:

• everything (master document) → Opens, does not show sub documents of type .odm
  • …
  • chapters (master document) → appears on the list of sub-documents, is not found by the parent master document, but right-click->Edit opens it
    • chapter 1 (master document) → appears on the list of sub-documents, is not found by the parent master document, but right-click->Edit opens it
      • chapter 1 theme (writer document)
      • chapter 1 development (writer document)
        […]

Do I need to do any further configuration of LibreOffice?
Have anyone seen something like this?

[oweng]

How did you insert the section link to a sub-master in each master? Sounds like a regression in behaviour on the face of it.

[JoséM.R.Amores]

When the master document was created, I simply inserted an existing .odm file into it. Whoever right now, my LibreOffice does not do that. If I try to insert a .odm file into a master document it allows me to select it, but then it does no action at all, not even throws an warning stating some type of error occurred.

[oweng]

Ok. That explains what I am seeing under v4.2. I have now tested behaviour under versions: 3.3.41, 3.4.6.2, 3.5.7.2, 3.6.7.2, 4.0.6.2, 4.1.6.2, 4.2.8.2, 4.3.5.2, and 4.4.1.2. Only the 3.6, 4.0, and 4.1 series allow insertion of an ODM into an ODM. It would be worth raising a bug report to get the behaviour clarified.

[JoséM.R.Amores]

I have raised a bug report on this matter: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90232
Hope that the developing teams can shed some light onto this.