I'm not advocating doing it silently. There are many packages that ask
on upgrading if the user wants to update configuration or user details
to conform with the new standard. It seems it would be relatively easy
to have a dialog that says something like "This version of LibreOffice
stores user data in a different location than the one you have been
using. What would you like to do? * Leave user data where it is. * Copy
user data to the new location (~/.config/libreoffice/) * Move user data
to the new location.

Or at the very least have a warning: "Warning: This new version of
LibreOffice stores user data in a different folder than previous
versions. If you would like to use your existing user data, please move
it . . ." Or have a dialog come up at the first startup saying something
like "LibreOffice has detected user data from a previous version. Would
you like to import that data?"

In my view silently changing where data is supposed to be is as
objectionable as silently changing it to the correct location. Neither
is necessary though.

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