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

[John Vivirito]

On 10/05/2009 10:37 AM, John Dong wrote:
> Thanks, Mark, for chiming in.
> 
> Indeed LTS does not imply that every major piece of newly released
> software will be backported, nor is the Backports team interested in
> trying to do so if it means sacrificing the stability or supportability
> of the OS...
> 
> 
> To move this forward, in my mind:
> 
> (1) We don't need any more comments about why we need to move this
> forward. We understand that generally, folks would like to have the
> newest OpenOffice release.
> 
> (2) Any additional dependencies needed to build OpenOffice on Hardy
> should be tracked down for us to decide if they are appropriate to bring
> in.
> 
> (3) Furthermore, someone needs to step up to the plate in terms of
> promising that the (somewhat frequent) security fixes to OpenOffice will
> be backported too.
> 
> 
> A good first step is to attempt to get Karmic's OpenOffice building in a Hardy PPA with as few dependency backports as possible.
> 
> 
> P.S. I saw no evidence that the reason there isn't a Hardy OpenOffice backport is a lack of computational resources to build it. Chris's PPA states that he has limited time to maintain packages for all supported releases, which is understandably the case.
> 
Backports are not supported so why not keep them in a PPA
since PPA's are not supported? This package is alot of work to
backport from 9.10 -> 8.04. Alot of major changes in 3
releases and trying to get someone to maintain it with
security fixes is going to be hard as well.
Not sure how often OO.o releases security fixes but i can
imagine ~ 1 time a month maybe 1 every 2 months.
If you are going to back port it than i suggest waiting for
10.04 since 9.10 dev cycle is about done.
Most pakcages related (depends/rdepends) are suggests. The
ones that are depends/rdepends are OO.o packages. I have to
assume that they are built with openoffice.org source. however
each one of those needs to be checked.
Please dont hold me to this since i may be gone for ~3months
but i may look at this for 10.04 i just rather see it in PPA.
Its easier to support security releases (use a bot like
Mozilla team does for dailies) and skips all the red tape of
trying to get it in repos


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Please backport OpenOffice.org 3 to Hardy
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