Re: openoffice problem prevents desktop task from working on all arches except: i386, powerpc, s390, sparc
Hi Joey,
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> I don't want to ship sarge with the desktop task not working on all
> arches; I can think of two ways to fix it:
>
> 1. Make openoffice.org-bin be in the desktop task, not openoffice.org. It
> depends on openoffice.org, so this should still install everything, and
> tasksel will skip installing openoffice at all if openoffice.org-bin is
> not available for a given arch. To make this work, I will probably
> also need to remove openoffice.org-help-en from the desktop task, and
> remove all the openoffice.org-l10n-* and -help-* packages from the
> localisd desktop tasks.
Didn't I already tell you this on IRC months ago?
Well, you added -bin in addition to openoffice.org then, but I guessed you
knew what you did... To be honest, I wonder why you come up with this
*now*...
> 2. Make openoffice.org and all the -help-* and -l10n-* packages not be
> arch all, so they are not available on architectures where the -bin is
> not built. Then tasksel would skip OOo when installing the desktop
> task on such architectures.
>
> (Or some combination of removing some things and making others not be
> arch all, I suppose.)
>
> OOo team, is #2 feasable in the short term? Is #1 a reasonable fix?
#2 is planned _after sarge_, openoffice.org will be i386 powerpc s390 sparc
arm (former -bin) and openoffice.org will mutate into -common. I am not sure
whether it will be done with the first 1.1.3 upload but it is in my mind and
the wish already is in the BTS:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252125
-help-* and -l10n-* *are* architecture-independent, it would be senseless
to make them architecture-dependent and increase build time for binary-only
builds and mirror space - OOo is big enough already and with the 11! new
binary packages which are planned (IIRC 5 of them new language packs and 2
other arch-indep packages) it will be even bigger....
It is not feasible to do inside the sarge timeframe although some people
(including you probably) would like it.
Regards,
René
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