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

2011-01-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
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 regression about what we ship right now) Thanks. So some distributions will

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

2011-01-20 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 11:13 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:13:43PM +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: .. make me think that fragmentation, while of course allowed by the license, should be discouraged when it comes to functionality; I'm not questioning desktop

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

2011-01-20 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 02:20:45PM +, Michael Meeks wrote: On the other hand, I think Andrea is right - my hope is that lots of the distributions on every platform will converge more onto the LibreOffice core over time, and require fewer patches, and (perhaps) a few more

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

2011-01-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
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 a questionable practice to make changes. I expected LibreOffice to be consistent across Nonsense. This is OSS. it). Are there compelling reasons why distributions should

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 a

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

2011-01-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/01/2011 Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: I think that we should have a webpage where Linux distributions who are packaging LibO, could list what changes they made compared to the official build by TDF. ... So, is it a good idea to ask the Linux distributions to publish the changes they made