Re: openoffice.org
On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:34:32AM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> > On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Travis Crump wrote:
> > >
> > > David Fokkema wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > short question: why is openoffice.org in contrib? On what non-free package
> > > > does it depend and what does that mean for a regular user?
> > > >
> > > > TIA,
> > > >
> > > > David
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > It build-depends on java[j2sdk1.3]. So as long as you don't want to
> > > build it[it's a monster anyway]...
> >
> > Well... don't know. I'm still trying to decide if I'm going to move to
> > unstable. Presently, I'm running testing and I have a few glitches but
> > that might be the hardware...
>
> I'm fairly sure that www.apt-get.org lists backports for both testing
> and stable.
It does indeed! However, for testing, getting openoffice.org from unstable
doesn't introduce dependency problems so it is not necessary to backport
it to testing. There is a backport for woody, for those of us running
stable.
David
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