On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:11:22AM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > The reason why ITP are CCed to debian-devel is that this is the place > where a discussion can take place. Even if you already had such a > conversation that did not forbid a discussion here. OK, lets do it for the sake of debian-devel: Answer given by Rene: -------------- > That's easy. > OpenOffice.org is a really huge package which an enourmous count (22) and > size of binary and source package(s). Uploading a new version if we change only > some documentation things, react to problems which need documenting in > README.Debian or do bugfixes on the wrapper script would cause an > enourmous mirror hit, which is easily avoided with this little package > which can then be updated more often if it's necessary. > The upload of -5 was rejected by James due to this problem... -------------- For more information about our plans and the package layout, see my last status update: http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2002/debian-openoffice-200210/msg00016.html
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