Re: [tdf-discuss] security related information, CVE-2015-4551, CVE-2015-5212, CVE-2015-5213, CVE-2015-5214

2015-11-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 11:01:48AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 11:33:52PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: > > Le 05/11/2015 12:19, Caolán McNamara a écrit : > > > Bottom Line: ensure you are upgraded to at least 4.4.6 or 5.0.0 > > > >

Re: [tdf-discuss] security related information, CVE-2015-4551, CVE-2015-5212, CVE-2015-5213, CVE-2015-5214

2015-11-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 11:33:52PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: > Le 05/11/2015 12:19, Caolán McNamara a écrit : > > Bottom Line: ensure you are upgraded to at least 4.4.6 or 5.0.0 > > > > Fixed in LibreOffice 4.4.6/5.0.0 > > > > CVE-2015-5214 DOC Bookmark Status Memory Corruption > >

Re: [tdf-discuss] Reporting Ubuntu bugs in LO - PPA or Official LO - Clarification needed

2011-02-07 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:16:34AM -0500, Fabian Rodriguez wrote: I am not sure the PPA was put together initially by TDF but regardless, Nope. you now have Canonical staff looking into it, and Debian has LibO packages in the experimental repository, which to me means everything is

Re: [tdf-discuss] The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3

2011-01-25 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:50:05AM -0600, Jeremy Cartwright wrote: And I see libreoffice has made it into the debian squeeze main contrib repositories! It didn't. It's in experimental only right now. Will upload it to sid when squeeze is released. Would it be prudent, then, to just wait

Re: [tdf-discuss] Automatic Update / Update info

2011-01-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:57:33AM +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: I second this as required. I think even Linux but then that will be distro specific. No. You need root for install, you use the office as user (everything else is broken), you therefore can't ^auto-update because you don't have

Re: [tdf-discuss] Automatic Update / Update info

2011-01-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
[ please fix your e-mail quoting ] Hi, On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 03:57:54PM +0100, Jaime R. Garza wrote: You also need Admin rights to install under Windows, but that's not the point. The point is that the user should be notified that there is a new version. If he or she can install it,

Re: [Libreoffice] [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-23 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 07:13:56PM +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Rene Engelhard wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:13:48AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: Besides that, distros will have to continue libreoffice-build, which does still contain patches. (Removing those would be a big

Re: [Libreoffice] [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
[ fullquoting for discuss@dfs sake. forgot the CC. Not that it matters much, but anyways. ] Hi, On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:13:48AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:13:43PM +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: It is a good idea to track changes, but it is probably

Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:49:51PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: and, possibly, Debian might need to ship an acceptably free version by their own standards if there were any doubt as to the appropriate freeness of the LibreOffice code by the standards of the particular distribution

Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 08:07:03AM +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: I am interested to see Rene's input on this as he is part of the Debian team. Thanks, answered both Andrea and Andrew. Grüße/Regards, René -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive:

Re: [tdf-discuss] 64bit now works in OO

2010-12-09 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:18:21PM -0500, Susan Cragin wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 11:52 -0500, Susan Cragin wrote: LibO_3.3.0rc1_Linux_x86-64 is based on that earlier version that still had bugs. So, may I ask what the bugs are? I don't know. I'm not a programmer, nor affiliated with

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 09:21:08AM +, Sveinn í Felli wrote: It's quite surreal to see some power users/developers not seeing or refusing to see that the whole concept of the software in question IS a big metaphor: Office. Wrong, I do see it. And its users are using GUIs and other

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 08:04:29AM -0700, Craig A. Eddy wrote: listed in the README_en-US file. I'm not familiar with dpgk, though I Then get. You administer a Debian-based system without knowing dpkg? Oh my. (Besides that, http://packages.debian.org/libreoffice has a metapackage - you need at

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 09:03:35AM -0600, Alexandro Colorado wrote: unsuspecting users to the same problem that OOo has been famous for: there is no obvious way to start to install the files. Dependencies for dpkg -i *.deb? each .deb have to be met, but nothing indicates the order with

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:28:43PM +0800, David Nelson wrote: Oh, Wow! What if you're an end user who needs a computer just to do work on? Does every Linux user have to be a hard-core geek? And if you own a Windows system, should one study for Microsoft certification before shelling out you

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
, despite what you want to claim. That graphical tools might make it difficult is no argument. On 22/11/10 15:07, Rene Engelhard wrote: There is no goddamn need for it. (That Ubuntu people in 90% of cases have no clue how they do basic system tasks doesn't make it more needed) This is a rather

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 06:50:36PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 03:52:41PM +, Lee Hyde wrote: original poster is making. Windows users are presented with a single setup.exe while debian/ubuntu users are presented with a multitude of individual .deb files

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 04:56:40PM +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: So, I think that any user guide that makes it easier for computer illiterates to install a software is always welcome, provided that I will not install LibreOffice until is available in a repository that I can access via Ubuntu

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 07:34:13PM +0100, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: From a geeks point of view You are right. But I'm shure that it is not a good idea to make all people out there geeks before using a computer or using office software ;o)). Ah, so we should let people not care about

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 02:55:22AM +0800, David Nelson wrote: I am ROFL reading this thread. :-D You obviously are not thinking about the big picture, otherwise you wouldn't laugh. Rene, I'll write that how-to this week, notably for Ubuntu users, and then - if it's OK with you - I'll send you

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 02:28:54PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: open to learning a *few* new things, it is extremely user friendly. There is, however, a segment of the population that actively resists learning *anything*. And that's a problem. Grüße/Regards, René -- Unsubscribe