Bug#786713: transition: libwps
On 15/06/15 16:11, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [ abiword, calligra: context: libwps 0.4 transition. See
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786713. I unfortunately
> X-Debbugc-CC'ed @packages.qa.d.o which only ends up in the PTS and thus
> probably wouldn't have been seen ]
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 07:03:56PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
>> libwps 0.4.0 changed API of one function (and thus also SONAME).
>>
>> It is already in NEW since May 17.
>
> Now accepted...
>
> Looking at Fedora I see commits from LO Fedora maintainer and
> libwps upstream to Fedora packaging to fix abiword/calligra.
> Which in fact the same to what I outlined in my initial post. :)
>
> See http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/calligra.git/commit/?id=124c28df44584e08b00d4dbb859362af73c41070 and http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/abiword.git/commit/?id=1482cf1f893b6378f6c868a1f999912b7bd366d6
>
> The LO patch isn't backportable without much effort (keeping the new
> features) but we can (probably, to be verified) do it the same style as
> abiword/calligra.
Sorry, but can you rephrase that? Do you mean that it needs a lot of effort to
backport it, and so you prefer to wait for 5.0.0? Or can you backport it and
upload a fixed LO 4.4.x together with libwps?
Cheers,
Emilio
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