Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> wrote:
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> I'm using Sid. After OpenOffice broke during an upgrade I purged it and
> reinstalled, after which it returned to life as LibreOffice. There
> wasn't any warning about this transition; it just happened.
>
> I googled some information about LibreOffice, which informs me that it
> is a fork of OpenOffice. Its appearance in Sid seems to be fairly recent
> because not all mirrors have it. Is there any information about when and
> why Debian adopted this change? (Perhaps there was and I missed it.)
It's not a Debian change but a split away from Oracle.
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