Hi Scott,
Chris Halls wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 00:36, Scott Thatcher wrote:
> > Hello! I'm writing with a question as to whether it's too late to get
> > OpenOffice 1.1.3 into Sarge.
>
> I'd love to be able to say yes, but I don't think there is much chance
> of this happening. To do this it would need someone to have the time to
> develop and build new packages and test them very thoroughly, and Rene &
> I do not have the time to do this in our free time on top of all the
> other major bugs that need attention. So unless someone volunteers a
> huge amount of time and effort in the next few days, we have no hope of
> doing this. Sorry,
Right. Just to make it more verbose:
the OPENOFFICE_ORG_1_1_3 branch contains work already done (and in progress)
for the 1.1.3 packages. As you can see there, there are new binary packages
(-dev*, -kde, -gnomevfs, -gtk + new langs) and new features (vclplug and libwpd support) and I am not sure we should rush that in. Since -dev and the
kde/gtk stuff were widlely requested always I think we should enable it
in the 1.1.3 packages...
I know at least of one bug in this branch where we have double depends on
the -bin, one time through the .shlibs (probably too lax with 1.1.0-2 anyway
but I once wrote that just as a working placeholder...) and the hardcoded one
in debian/rules. This should be fixed; I don't know whether other bugs like
that are still lurking there..
I just merged the 1.1.2-4 and -5 stuff into this branch and made it work
with the new ooo-build structure (ooo-build-1-3 branch is to use)
but didn't yet do further tests with it..
And then the .orig.tar.gz needs to be made (with the unneeded and the
non-free stuff removed....)... (from the fixed -1 source tarball..)
What I could try is to fix this .shlibs/dependency problem ([1]) and then
upload to experimental - then they will appear there after they were approved
by the ftpmasters...
What we really need is someone who extensively tests it and (if needed) helps
completing the packaging especially of the new packages....
Grüße/Regards,
René
[1] - stop hardcoding -bin deps and do it always in .shlibs
- don't ship .shlibs file at all - I am not even sure stuff building
against us will get that per default since the libs are not in
/usr/lib..
- do some other hack
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