Re: [Libreoffice] [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rene Engelhard wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:13:48AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: Besides that, distros will have to continue libreoffice-build, which does still contain patches. (Removing those would be a big regression about what we ship right now) Thanks. So some distributions will

Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/01/2011 Cor Nouws wrote: Andrea Pescetti wrote (18-01-11 21:13) LibreOffice bugs like http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@documentfoundation.org/msg04508.html ... The bug you point to, does not suggest that they will make substantial changes, though? Well, at a first glance I'd say

Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-23 Thread Carlo Strata
Il 09/01/2011 16:56, RGB ES ha scritto: Good idea! Maybe a wiki page will be enough, but someone from each distro with enough knowledge should fill their part. On my experience, when giving support to OOo users on Linux many of their problems came from distro patches and were not present on

Re: [Libreoffice] [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-23 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 07:13:56PM +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Rene Engelhard wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:13:48AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: Besides that, distros will have to continue libreoffice-build, which does still contain patches. (Removing those would be a big

Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-23 Thread Carlo Strata
Il 19/01/2011 11:56, Rene Engelhard ha scritto: Hi, On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:49:51PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: and, possibly, Debian might need to ship an acceptably free version by their own standards if there were any doubt as to the appropriate freeness of the LibreOffice code by

Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-23 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
On 01/23/2011 08:06 PM, Carlo Strata wrote: Il 19/01/2011 11:56, Rene Engelhard ha scritto: Hi, On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:49:51PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: and, possibly, Debian might need to ship an acceptably free version by their own standards if there were any doubt as to the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-19 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Andrea, Andrea Pescetti wrote (18-01-11 21:13) The OpenOffice.org experience, and the first distribution-specific LibreOffice bugs like http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@documentfoundation.org/msg04508.html make me think that fragmentation, while of course allowed by the license, should be

Re: [Libreoffice] [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
[ fullquoting for discuss@dfs sake. forgot the CC. Not that it matters much, but anyways. ] Hi, On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:13:48AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:13:43PM +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: It is a good idea to track changes, but it is probably a

Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:49:51PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: and, possibly, Debian might need to ship an acceptably free version by their own standards if there were any doubt as to the appropriate freeness of the LibreOffice code by the standards of the particular distribution

Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 08:07:03AM +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: I am interested to see Rene's input on this as he is part of the Debian team. Thanks, answered both Andrea and Andrew. Grüße/Regards, René -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/01/2011 Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: I think that we should have a webpage where Linux distributions who are packaging LibO, could list what changes they made compared to the official build by TDF. ... So, is it a good idea to ask the Linux distributions to publish the changes they made

Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-18 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
On 01/18/2011 10:49 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:13:43PM +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 09/01/2011 Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: I think that we should have a webpage where Linux distributions who are packaging LibO, could list what changes they made compared to the

[tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-09 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Hi all, I think that we should have a webpage where Linux distributions who are packaging LibO, could list what changes they made compared to the official build by TDF. I see two main advantages : - for users and helpers : they will know easier if a problem comes from LibO or from packaging -

Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-09 Thread RGB ES
Good idea! Maybe a wiki page will be enough, but someone from each distro with enough knowledge should fill their part. On my experience, when giving support to OOo users on Linux many of their problems came from distro patches and were not present on vanilla build (anyone remember when kde4

Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-09 Thread Fabián Rodríguez
On 11-01-09 10:11 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Hi all, I think that we should have a webpage where Linux distributions who are packaging LibO, could list what changes they made compared to the official build by TDF. I see two main advantages : - for users and helpers : they will know