Debian politics mostly. See below. http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice/#news
2002-09-29 Ok .. after silent work, we have some news. First of all, Gerhard Tonn builded a package for OpenOffice.org on S390, so we have a third architecture with running OpenOffice.org on debian. You can find the packages at http://people.debian.org/~gt/openoffice.org. Check them, if you can (I know, everyone have one :) ) and report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The debian PowerPC port of debian has a bug in the dependencies. If you deinstall gcc-3.1.1 from your debian installation completely, including libstdc++4, openoffice.org is to be removed then, too. This a consequense of the mozilla binaries for the PowerPC OpenOffice.org, which are builded with gcc-3.1.1. Building Mozilla with gcc-3.2.1, Jan got a linker error, but Jan found some patches to solve that, so he will build Mozilla and OpenOffice.org again to get rid of the libstdc++4 dependency. Chris, Rene and Jan are discussion whether it should be clever to use the internal libraries of the OpenOffice.org source or not. Chris intention is to get OpenOffice.org into debian faster and wait for the gcc-transition to use the system libs of debian. Jan's opinion is to use debian libs as they can, but it will take time and OpenOffice.org may into after the gcc-transition. Chris uploaded OpenOffice.org to debian in the last weeks, but it was rejected, because, the Debian OpenOffice.org Team should provide source-packages of the language-packages of OpenOffice.org. But this is not possible, because the language-packages are build at buildtime from the same source as OpenOffice.org. Splitting up the sourcepackage is not possible. Packages for debian-woody are available as TESTING packages. These packages are running under debian-woody and sarge. Just, testing is used as debian use it ;). But it is only available for I386. Jan is working for PowerPC, but this is not as easy, because, we have to use gcc-3.2 for PowerPC. So he has to backport gcc/binutils/glibc for woody/sarge. Check out the Mirrors-Page. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2002-08-20 It is done. Chris is preparing the upload of OpenOffice.org packages to debian-unstable. We are now building OpenOffice.org with gcc-3.2 and the patch 026 fixes the problem, I pointed out on 2002-08-10. OpenOffice.org is now available for I386 and Jan builded OpenOffice.org for PPC already, but will upload it tomorrow. Chris mailed today, that we have a few new help packages available in other langs as en_EN. You can find them on our mirrors in some tome (after sync) :) Available are: openoffice.org-help-de_0.20020222-1_all.deb openoffice.org-help-es_0.20020222-1_all.deb openoffice.org-help-fr_0.20020222-1_all.deb openoffice.org-help-it_0.20020222-1_all.deb openoffice.org-help-sv_0.20020222-1_all.deb and can be grapped from: http://sf1.mirror.openoffice.org/miscellaneous/helpcontent --- Bob Crandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because. > > Bob Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > > > >Why is OpenOffice.org not included in the Debian distributions? > >It's available from http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice/, > >but not on the regular Debian mirrors. > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > > > -- > Bob Crandell > Assured Computing > When you need to be sure. > Voice 541-689-9159 > FAX 240-371-7237 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.assuredcomp.com > Eugene, Or. 97402 > > > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
