Bug#612807: marked as done (libreoffice: Need openoffice transitional packages)

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

block 612807 by 612813
thanks

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 09:36:34PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 08:21:09PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > On 02/10/2011 09:10 PM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > To ease the
> > > transition, could libreoffice provide transitional packages named
> > > "openoffice.org", "openoffice.org-writer", and so on, which depend on
> > > the corresponding libreoffice packages?
> > 
> > this is what the openoffice.org in experimental is already doing, it's
> > only consisting of transitional packages as of version 1:3.3.0.
> 
> And also those in unstable:
> 
> e.g.:
> 
>  openoffice.org-writer | 1:3.3.0-3                   | sid              | all
> 
> Admittedly, "openoffice.org" itself is missing (probably a bug in the scripted
> generation of these transitional packages), but...

... they don't end up in the actual Packages files because of daks "new" super-duper
logic of holding back _all packages unless their any counterarts are built. As was
just discussed on #debian-ftp

21:43 < _rene_> can some ftp-person shed some light on why, though openoffice.org-* 3.3.0-3 is in the archive, it doesn't appear in Packages file (clean sid
                chroot doesn't see it?)
21:44 < _rene_> maybe because there's the old ones taking precedence?
21:44 < _rene_> (they are arch-dep, while the new ones are all arch-indep -> transitional packages)
21:45 < _rene_> which then results in e.g. #612807
21:47 < Ganneff> could it be that you converted it all to arch:all?
21:49 < _rene_> yep
21:49 < _rene_> all packages
21:49 < _rene_> (and I dropped some which don't need transitional packages)
21:52 < Ganneff> twerner: is that a case touched by the changes from last essen, where newer arch all will be hold back due to "missing" arch any? ie need to
                 remove older arch any here
21:53 < _rene_> ah, that would make sense, yes.
21:53 < _rene_> like when you upload package X which has _all packages and X isn't yet built.
21:54 < _rene_> that would also explain the britney symptoms...
21:59 < _rene_> should I file a RM or will you do it?
21:59 < Ganneff> you could file one
[...]
22:07 < _rene_> twerner: filed a bug
[...]
22:11 < _rene_> twerner: 612813

Grüße/Regards,

René