Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:54:15 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:

> 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.

Good move IMO, being Sid.
 
> I googled some information about LibreOffice, which informs me that it
> is a fork of OpenOffice. 

Oracle was invited by The Document Project (LibreOffice hosters) to 
enjoy them but they rejected to parcipate.

> 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.)

Changelog? :-)

http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org_3.3.0-5/changelog

Or package description:

***
Package: openoffice.org (1:3.3.0-5)
office productivity suite

This is a transitional package, replacing the OpenOffice.org packaging with 
the LibreOffice packaging.

It can be safely removed after an upgrade. 
***

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón