severity 440647 important retitle 440647 DicOOo.sxw crashes when -base not installed thanks Hi, Barry Klein wrote: > Package: openoffice.org > Version: 2.x doesn't fit. Version: expects real versions, not some pseudo ones. > Severity: serious Umm, no. > If openoffice.org-base is not installed, opening DictOOo.sxw > (File>Wizards>Install new dictionaries), OpenOffice.org crashes. Define crashes. hangs? Or what? It does that here also with base installed. (Although with a 2.3 development version) > Also applies to any other file that contains macros. > > This applies to all versions of OpenOffice.org Version 2. > > OpenOffice.org-base is a non-essential part of OpenOffice. It should be Neither is DicOOo. (imho) > possible to not install it to save download time or so as not to confuse > users with a program they are not likely to use. That's what we do currently. That's why -common does not depend on -base. The openoffice.org metapackage is exactly there for people who don't know what they do, if people just install -writer etc they should know what they do... I am currently thinking about reworking the packages' contents, though... Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' rene@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73
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