Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi Joey, > > [ snip ] > > > 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*... I don't keep a record of things people tell me on IRC, TBPH. OOo was not a part of the desktop task months ago, and months ago tasks were installed in a slightly more robust way that hid this problem. I also didn't have a machine in an affected architecture to test until 2 days ago. > #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. This leaves me only two options, I can entirely remove all OOo stuff from all tasks, or I can remove all arch all stuff from all tasks, leaving the main program. -- see shy jo
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