Neal McBurnett, regarding your comments:
> There are still problems with the warning message. Lets focus this bug on 
> fixing that. Please set it to "wishlist" at least, rather than "won't fix".

Wishlist is a Status, while Won't Fix is an Importance. For more on this please 
see:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance

> But as documented on the LibreOffice site, some features won't work without 
> Java:
What features absolutely require Java ? - Ask LibreOffice
http://ask.libreoffice.org/question/696/what-features-absolutely-require-java
Note that this results in e.g. bug #780399 “Wizard doesn't run without 
libreoffice-java-common installed. The user should be notified to install it 
when running a wizard." See also this AskUbuntu question:
How do I get LibreOffice Extensions to work in Ubuntu 12.04? - Ask Ubuntu - 
Stack Exchange
http://askubuntu.com/questions/127570/how-do-i-get-libreoffice-extensions-to-work-in-ubuntu-12-04
Given all that, the warning message should change.
Now it emphatically declares that there is a problem, and tells users to 
install a package that doesn't actually fix the problem.
I'd think we'd want it to figure out whether Java is missing or the 
javasettings_Linux_*.xml file is causing a problem, and give a warning with 
better advice to the user, e.g.:
javaldx: LibreOffice could not find a Java Runtime Environment. That's fine if 
you don't rely on features that require Java like some wizards, extensions and 
databases (see 
http://ask.libreoffice.org/question/696/what-features-absolutely-require-java). 
If you do rely on those features, install the "libreoffice-base" package from 
the Ubuntu Software Center.

None of that justifies changing the warning message. If one reads the official 
Ubuntu documentation for installing LibreOffice in Ubuntu, and follows the 
directions to install the entire suite, this issue does not occur:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibreOffice

libreoffice (Ubuntu) -> Wishlist

** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Low => Wishlist

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