Re: Status of work on OpenOffice
Hi!
I think that the truth is in between. OpenOffice really needs alot of
upstream type work. One of them is a build infrastructure that works.
It is really not very meaningful to package OpenOffice as it is now:
I guess there is a long-long list of lintian errors. However it might be good
for the unit radix end user, who cannot download and install it for
herself. But I regard it only as a placebo effort until the Real Thing
happens.
A levelezőm azt hiszi, hogy Peter Novodvorsky a következőeket írta:
> Hello!
>
> I want to say, that you're talking about big problems that can happen
> in future. We need to make usable openoffice packages now. Frankly
> speaking, openoffice package that I've released on ~nidd/debian/unstable
> is buildable by autobuilder.
Okay, so we have a usable openoffice package. The next step is to come up
with a maintaineable one:)
> > I still think splitting the source in packages is the way to go for
> > OOo in the long run. Upstream is modular, and reflecting this in
> > the packaging will help the builders and perhaps allowing other
> > odk-software to be packages easily. (If it will exist some day).
>
> Please, can you be more verbose? I still don't understand why splitting
> source in several source packages will help. It won't help autobuilders
> anyhow. I don't see any matter to do it, and it is quite hard to do.
> Could describe your point of view in details?
There are a lot of externalia and cross-package wormholes in the oo source.
The easyest way to get rid of them is to separate the packages, so the
externalia drop out, and the cross-package nastynesses turn out.
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