Re: OpenOffice.org Localized build.
Le mardi 24 janvier 2006 à 16:51 +0530, priti Patil a écrit :
> Hi Jérôme,
>
> Thanks for quick reply.
Please, unless it is confidential, really personal, or wouldn't care to
anybody else, try to answer to the mailing-list.
Thanks
> On 1/24/06, Jérôme Warnier <jwarnier@beeznest.net> wrote:
> Le mardi 24 janvier 2006 à 11:32 +0530, priti Patil a écrit :
> > Hi list,
> >
> > How one should decide on what debian distribution (sid,
> stable,
> > unstable etc) should be used for building OpenOffice.org
> source ? So
> > that minimum or no issue should come across at all.
> Official Debian packages are always meant to be built on
> Unstable.
> Later, they migrate to Testing, and once in a while, Testing
> becomes
> Stable.
>
> Yes, that's true.
>
>
> There is an exception, though: security updates, which are
> built to fix
> a bug in Stable, but in the same time, they are meant to be as
> close to
> the original package as possible.
>
> Not clear.
The security updates in Debian Stable are the original packages modified
as few as possible to fix the issue.
> Of course, you could consider that a package already in
> Testing or
> Stable is meant to be built on it (as it is there, there is
> probably
> great chances that it also builds).
>
> I've downloaded source code of OpenOffice.org 2.0 from it's downloads
> area.
What are you trying to achieve exactly?
Do you want custom Debian packages or what?
> And backports are (most of the time) special packages modified
> from
> Unstable only to build cleanly on Stable. They are not
> official in any
> way, though.
>
> Hmm...then what is the significance of such packages?
To depend on as few packages not present in Stable as possible.
> Hope it helped.
>
> Sorry to say, no.
Hope we'll get somewhere soon, then.
> > Priti
> Priti.
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