Hi ... On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:11:32AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: >> When an application has an unusually long release cycle it is >> useful if there is a snapshot version of the package in addition >> to the release version. Bugs get fixed in CVS, but they don't >> appear in the stable release for months. Or, one would like >> to help test the beta. Thus we have mozilla-snapshot and galeon- >> snapshot, for example. OOo is a package of this kind. Hence >> this wish. >We actually are working on that. At the moment, we work towards 1.0.3 >which should get out in the mid of April. After that we go for 1.1beta >and we think about doing such a package. But do not forget, OpenOffice.org is much more a beast as mozilla. There are no snapshots available from xfree86 on the official debian-mirrors, so, I think, that is OK, that there are no OOo-snapshot releases. But in this case, for testing beta-packages, it makes sence .. for us and the upsteam-authors. 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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