[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: openoffice problem prevents desktop task from working on all arches except: i386, powerpc, s390, sparc



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

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature


Reply to: