Hi *, On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:02:58PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > [ late answer, I needed time to *try* make my answer polite, sorry if that > doesn't happen all the time in this post, for the record I am one of the > two people making the Debian packages, currently the most active one of > both ]
You shouldn't have made it polite, but instead should have tried to focus on the topic itself. (note that the thread is labeled with "packaging process"...) > Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: > > That does not necessarily mean, that they need to patch or change > > anything in the provided products, does it? At least OOo provides > > extensive configurability to actually change everything, without needing > > to alter a single line of code. > > Of course that does. There's bugs in OOo. Bugs need to be fixed. > Distributions and OOo have different release schedules. Or: You have > some additions you *need* for whatever reasons. All this is independent of the packaging. > And you don't build some of the optional stuff. > You have various UNFIXED security things open (Mozilla to name the most > prominent one). This is not either. If not building some optional stuff breaks the default packaging, then it would be a bug. > In any case, it is a no-no for a Linux distri to ship binaries you just > got. Nobody questioned that. > [...] > > >... and we would have the DLL conflicts nightmare in Linux too (see > > >"Coherence" paragraph) ;-). > > So, we already have that par excellence ... :-(. Exactly this is the > > reason, why we (being an ISV) have to bring all this 3rd party stuff by > > our own, basically being a kind of a mini distro on Linux. > > No. > > Dynamic libraries under Linux have SONAMEs indicating > binary-compatibility. The Windows DLL hell is about stuff just named > .dll without indications about of that. The problem is not that you cannot determine what version is installed, but that often libraries are not compatible. Versions compiled with version $foo doesn't run on version $bar > [...] ciao Christian -- NP: Silverchair - Shade --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
