Why OpenOfficeupgrade held back

[Collins Richey]

On 9/23/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-23-09 at 17:45 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> > Not likely anyone but developers would know the answer.
> >
> > Why are the latest OpenOffice upgrades held back,ie I presume must be
> > installed via dist-upgrade?
>
> do "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade", and look at which new packages it wants
> to install for you.    Then you will have your answer and you can decide
> if you want to do the actual install or not on your system.
>
> Daniel
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On 9/23/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-23-09 at 17:45 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> > Not likely anyone but developers would know the answer.
> >
> > Why are the latest OpenOffice upgrades held back,ie I presume must be
> > installed via dist-upgrade?
>
> do "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade", and look at which new packages it wants
> to install for you.    Then you will have your answer and you can decide
> if you want to do the actual install or not on your system.
>

Rather interesting results. If I do an apt-get dist-upgrade (I always
run from sudo su -), I get a  number of extra packages to be installed
and a number of packages to be removed. If, OTOH,
I do apt-get install openoffice.org, I get larger numbers of packages
to be removed and a gigantic list of packages (most seemingly
unrelated) to be obsoleted.

So, the additional questions are

1. Has anyone developer or otherwise actually tested this packaging?
2. Will this package break my system?

Just for reference, I run a kubuntu system, but I also have
ubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop installed. I have no desperate need
to upgrade openoffice, so I'll just wait it out.

If you find this topic unsuitable for the devel list, I'll understand
and shut up quickly.

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Collins Richey
    If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
    of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.