Re: openoffice should be provided.

["dE ." <de.techno@gmail.com>]

On 04/15/12 20:29, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> On 04/15/2012 10:45 AM, dE . wrote:
> > On 04/15/12 19:41, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> > > On 04/15/2012 05:36 AM, dE . wrote:
> > > > I was wondering if the latest openoffice (3.3) be provided following the
> > > > major regressions since the libreoffice fork (I think the total no. of
> > > > bugs has increased). OOo is more stable and reliable.
> > > My 2 cents on this would be that the Debian maintainers / community have
> > > decided to go with LibreOffice for lots of good reasons.
> > >
> > > And, this is "testing", after all. The idea, I suppose, is that we -- as
> > > testers -- get to look at the (almost) latest and greatest and use bug
> > > reports as needed to report our experiences with the packages in
> > > testing. Occasional breakage is expected. But the hope is that the kinks
> > > get worked out in the process so that, when the present testing version
> > > is ready to go stable, it's -- well, stable.
> > >
> > > Those who have stability / reliability of the software as their priority
> > > should probably be using the current stable rather than the testing
> > > version of Debian. And there's the alternative of simply using testing
> > > but obtaining OpenOffice from outside the standard repository. That way,
> > > testing gets used for what it was designed for, and you get to have the
> > > office applications you prefer.
> > >
> > > But I believe that the idea of maintaining stable needs to remain
> > > consistent with it being supplied with applications that sit kind of
> > > close to the bleeding edge. (And, of course, there's unstable and
> > > experimental for those who don't mind the odd hemorrhage, now and then.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Gilbert
> > I was wondering about this cause testing will be frozen in 2 months.
> >
> > Yes, obviously, if the PMs refuse to package it, then I'll be
> > downloading the static portable builds form somewhere.
> Oops! I'm sorry I miss-stated what I meant in my last paragraph above. I
> should have said that "the idea of maintaining *testing* needs to remain
> consistent..."
>
> And, yes, concerning getting OpenOffice from somewhere, I suppose that
> enabling an outside repository for OpenOffice for use with testing might
> have its drawbacks, as opposed to using a static portable build. One
> moving target at a time is probably enough. At least it certainly would
> be for me.
>
> I'm afraid my use of office applications of any type is not likely to be
> advanced enough -- or unusual enough -- to have me running into most of
> the bugs I've seen listed.
>
> Maybe you just need to be more simple-minded -- like me!
>
> ;-)
>
> Best regards,
> Gilbert

I'm facing problems with deployments. That's why.

Libreoffice can't open a lot of doc, ppt, docx and pptx files... this's 
a very common feature exploited. Also it corrupts pptx. Closing the find 
toolbar (via the x button) twice crashes libreoffice.

Otherwise, if you're looking at advanced features... a lot are broken.