On 20/03/2013 at 22:20, Kieran Peckett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just a quick question: Is the version of LibO on the Pi Store (an app store > for the Raspberry Pi's Rasbpian distro) an official build supported by TDF > or is it a fork of LibO? It's hard to tell. It depends of your understanding of "official" and "fork". They are not "official" in the meaning that TDF does not provide arm build of LO. That also means that .debs downloaded from TDF site will not work on your Raspberry Pi. But they are not "fork" either, as they don't have separate branding, their own website, team of developers or any new features. In fact, these are binary packages build on Debian infrastructure from TDF sources, with some downstream (Debian-specific) patches. Such patches usually provides better integration of program with distro-specific tools or fixes compilation errors on architectures not supported by upstream, but supported by distro (and Debian supports nine architectures, while TDF only two). Sometimes they also provide features or fixes from newer version of software; but as far as I am aware, Debian LO maintainers tend to not backport anything. Another question is: what does it change, if packages are "official"? It's not that TDF provides any commercial user support anyway. -- Best regards Mirosław Zalewski -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
