Hi .. On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:17:47PM +0200, Stefan Schwandter wrote: >> > I have to think about this once again. What's your opinion on that? >> I think it should go in there. Just because OOo isn't there - it works >> with that, or Star Office 5.2 or 6 and people will be using all of those >> too. Thats Ok I think, providing a package like that, if the software is commonly comming from third party .. >> The reason for OOo not being in Debian yet are more to do with the >> complexities of packaging a monster like that. We have the worst case. OpenOffice.org depends on j2sdk/j2re. This causes us, to let OpenOffice.org off debian and fix the packaging and hopefully the non-free dependency, so we have a change to get it into debian main! >Of course. But from the policy: >>Every package in main and non-US/main must comply with the DFSG >>(Debian Free Software Guidelines). >> >>In addition, the packages in main >> >>* must not require a package outside of main for compilation or >> execution (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends", >> "Recommends", or "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-main >> package), >Ok. So we're only allowed to use a "Suggests". Quoting from the >policy: >>Suggests >>This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one >>or more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and the >>user that the listed packages are related to this one and can perhaps >>enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is >>perfectly reasonable. >Hmm. How reasonable is it to install ooqstart without openoffice.org? What about StarOffice .. if someone installs it from Binary, downloaded from Sun/bought from Sun? They will not have OpenOffice.org installed and can use the quickstarter ... >I would like to get my package into debian, and I also don't think >that ooqstart would hurt anyone if it got in. You may put it on the mirrors, where OpenOffice.org packages are already. Regards Jan -- .''`. Jan-Hendrik Palic | : :' : ** Debian GNU/ Linux ** | ** OpenOffice.org ** ,.. ,.. `. `' http://www.debian.org | http://www.openoffice.org ,: ..` ` `- jan.palic@linux-debian.de | ' ` `
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