On 6/1/23 14:30, Matthias Clasen wrote: > Hey, > > as you've probably seen, the LibreOffice RPMS have recently been orphaned, > and I thought it would be good to explain the reasons > behind this. > > The Red Hat Display Systems team (the team behind most of Red Hat’s desktop > efforts) has maintained the LibreOffice packages in Fedora for years as part > of our work to support LibreOffice for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We are > adjusting our engineering priorities for RHEL for Workstations and focusing > on gaps in Wayland, building out HDR support, building out what’s needed for > color-sensitive work, and a host of other refinements required by Workstation > users. This is work that will improve the workstation experience for Fedora > as well as RHEL users, and which, we hope, will be positively received by the > entire Linux community. > > The tradeoff is that we are pivoting away from work we had been doing on > desktop applications and will cease shipping LibreOffice as part of RHEL > starting in a future RHEL version. This also limits our ability to maintain > it in future versions of Fedora. > > We will continue to maintain LibreOffice in currently supported versions of > RHEL (RHEL 7, 8 and 9) with needed CVEs and similar for the lifetime of those > releases (as published on the Red Hat website). As part of that, the > engineers doing that work will contribute some fixes upstream to ensure > LibreOffice works better as a Flatpak, which we expect to be the way that > most people consume LibreOffice in the long term. > > Any community member is of course free to take over maintenance, both for the > RPMS in Fedora and the Fedora LibreOffice Flatpak, but be aware that this is > a sizable block of packages and dependencies and a significant amount of work > to keep up with. > > Matthias
Why is a Flatpak a better choice for LibreOffice? -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
