Re: Get OpenOffice for amd64 fails

[Thibaut Paumard <mlotpot.news@free.fr>]

Le 19 juin 08 à 09:03, Steffen Kaiser a écrit :

> On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:16, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>
> >  You are propably on amd64 or powerpc - the latest version of  
> > openoffice
>
> Yep, amd64 (see Subject)
>
> > <http://experimental.ftbfs.de/new/package.php? 
> > p=openoffice.org&suite=etch-b
> > po>
>
> This chart does not say me much.
>
> >  If you are on amd64 you have to be a bit patient until the build is
> > signed and uploaded. if you are on powerpc there seem to have been a
>
> OK, I feared so because aptitude shows v2.4.1 for openoffice.org- 
> common, but
> v2.4.0 for openoffice.org. But shouldn't it be possible to retrieve  
> the
> correct variant of openoffice.org-common from the pool of packages  
> via APT? I
> mean, v2.4.0 of openoffice.org-common is still part of the pool.

Yep. It's a deficiency of the APT system: the _all packages appear  
upgradable on all archs at a time in unstable (or bpo). This is a  
good reason why the packages have to be in sync between the archs  
before they can migrate to testing.  The file is still available:
http://www.backports.org/debian/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/ 
openoffice.org-common_2.4.0-4~bpo40+1_all.deb

You can always go directly to the pool during these transitional  
periods when the arch-indep packages have beent update but not the  
arch-specific ones.

Regards, Thibaut.