On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:53:29AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about "Re: [OOo-H] Debian language 
> packages for OO":
> > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Shlomi Loubaton wrote:
> > > I would just love it if we had a language package for Debian.
> > You aren't the only one. This is on our task list for 2004.
> > 
> > > Does the project currently have patches for 1.1.1b ?
> > No.
> 
> A few weeks ago, I pointed out that even without being able to compile
> OpenOffice, there's much a volunteer can probably do to help that project.
> 
> Sure, it would be great if Sun or TKOS created Debian packages, but why
> wait for them? Somebody with knowledge of building debs, and a little
> knowledge, can do wonders.

BTW: what about the OpenOffice versions from Mandrake Cooker? Fedora?
ooo.ximian.com? Some of them may provide sanely-partitioned and
buildable OOo packages.

> 
> For the English deb, you can take Sun's procompiled version, add a few
> shell-scripts and such and call it a deb. I wonder if that's not what the
> Debian people actually did (rather than compile the whole thing themselves).

No. It is recompiled. 

Keep in mind that the Hebrew OOo packages contain some non-free fonts.
I'm not sure about the English ones from OpenOffice.org.

> For the Hebrew version, you can do the same. 

I'd be interested in a way to automate this procedure. Currently this
process requires user interaction and X.

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