> 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.
On 2002 October 08, Seth Cohn wrote: > > Debian politics mostly. See below. Your use of the term "politics" here makes it sound like you believe that Debian's software inclusion policies are arbitrary and senseless. From my reading of the text below (which I do not fully understand) it seems that there is a problem with OpenOffice.org not providing language-packages. Could someone who understands this issue please provide an explanation? Thanks, Dexter > 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. _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
