Bug#507127: openoffice.org-core: Should not conflict with cacao-oj6-jre

["Vincent Fourmond" <fourmond@debian.org>]

  Hello,

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote:
> Vincent Fourmond wrote:
>>   openoffice.org-core really should not conflict with
>> cacao-oj6-jre. Both packages are destined to have a wide audience, and
>
> cacao-oj6-jre is? There is openjdk (and it's not that slow as people
> suggest FME).

  cacao-oj6 is better in some respects (in particular fonts: default
fonts in openjdk are ugly and unreadable, which is not the case for
cacao-oj6).

> And cacao-oj6-jre (is at least in sid) Priority: extra anyway.
> Citing from the policy:
> "extra
>
>    This contains all packages that conflict with others with required, important, standard or optional priorities, or are only likely to be useful if you already know what they are or have specialized requirements."

  This is why I did not file a serious/important bug report.

>> the conflict is an extreme measure. Isn't it just possible to
>> blacklist cacao-oj6-jre somehow, if openoffice crashes with it ? It is
>
> Maybe (although I currently don't know how/whether that can be achieved,
> cacao-oj6-jre has - of course - a openjdk-like structure). OOo would need
> to parse its info...
>
> But the correct fix (imho) is to fix cacao-oj6-jre.

  I also agree with that.

  About the fact that cacao-oj6 will not make it to testing, I agree.
However, I wanted to file that bug report so it can be remembered and
fixed when it is possible. I didn't expect you to change that soon.

  Regards,

      Vincent