[Bug 283137] Re: Please backport OpenOffice.org 3 to Hardy

[John Dong]

I spoke with Chris today in detail about this, and he doesn't sound
terribly confident yet that openoffice.org 3's  final release is not
going to have some major bugs discovered in the near future. Since he is
most familiar with their release cycle and previous track record, I am
going to go with his opinion on this.

since it sounds like the side-by-side installation packaging is broken
beyond repair for now, I am very wary about replacing Hardy's Openoffice
with a version that is not very well tested (particularly since as of
now the way to uninstall a backport and revert to the regular version
for complex multi-deb packages is not supported/tested). Let's wait a
bit and see how Openoffice is for Hardy.


As far as Intrepid, I think we can be slightly less cautious but not that much so. Ideally it'd be nice to have a 3.0.1-type release before we go around replacing Openoffice.

Since Ubuntu uses an ooo-build brand of Openoffice some of the large
benefits of OOo3 (like Office 2007 XML support) has been available in
our 2.4 builds for a while. Bottom line is I don't think anyone will
suffer too greatly without it for a little bit while we carefully figure
out our best path forward from here.

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Please backport OpenOffice.org 3 to Hardy
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