On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 01:27:23AM -0400, Dylan Thurston wrote: > What's the status of freeing up the build process of openoffice? > > The July status update for openoffice.org[1] mentions that the build > still has non-free dependencies which need to be removed before an > upload to main, and says that "Peter is working on this." The August > status update[2] doesn't mention this issue at all, and seems to be > heading for an upload to contrib. I didn't mention it because nothing has changed yet. I am heading for contrib because I can do that without needing to wait for Peter, and we can move into main once the Java build dependency has been resolved. The non-free dependencies are only needed at build time, not runtime. > What's the status of this issue? Who > is Peter, and is he still working on freeing the build process? Peter is the father of all the distro packages: openoffice.org-1.0.1$ tail -6 debian/changelog openoffice (0.638c-1) unstable; urgency=low * Initial release. -- Peter Novodvorsky <nidd@debian.org> Tue, 23 Oct 2001 02:26:50 +0300 > Is it more difficult than expected? He has done some work I think, but it is not trivial and he has had very little time. Red Hat's packages do remove the build dependency but in a very hackish way by making a fake JDK. It is probably no more difficult than expected, but the expectations were not that it would be trivial :) Chris
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