On Fri, 2005-21-10 at 15:45 +0200, Sigrid Kronenberger wrote:

> 
> And additionally, there's the possibility, to wait a couple of hours,
> and you find deb-packages in the debian repositories. (I really know,
> that René Engelhard, the debian-maintainer for OOo, had committed
> OOo-packages to 'unstable' - I guess. I'm not sure about this, because
> I'm using a rpm-based distro.)
> 
> So, where's your problem?

First, it takes a lot longer than a couple of hours for the Debian
packages to be available. The maintainers test them before releasing
them; they don't just make the package and throw it into a repository. A
couple of weeks to a couple of months is more likely, especially since
Debian will undoubtedly build with GCJ to bypass the need to install
Java, which is non-free.

Second, Debian unstable currently has 1.1.4. One of the betas or release
candidates is available in experimental, but, as the name implies,
you're taking a chance using that.

If OpenOffice.org must be available in only one format, at least it
could be openpackage, so that everyone would be on the same footing.

-- 
Bruce Byfield 604-421.7177
http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield


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