Am Thu, 7 Aug 2014 10:11:02 +0200 schrieb Bartłomiej Piotrowski <b@bpiotrowski.pl>:
On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 22:33:30 +1000 Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
As an aside... why name the package libreoffice-still and not just keep libreoffice? As a user I would expect "pacman -S libreoffice" to find some form of libreoffice.
Allan
I can't really give a good answer, as I'm for keeping plain "libreoffice" too. Another possibility is "libreoffice" virtual package provided by both -still and -fresh, but I'll abstain before Andy returns.
We can drop install messages about splitting now. Note: The splitting has been reduced in LibO 4.3 packages (currently the LibO - "fresh" branch). About the branches: LibreOffice has two releases at a time. Those are called libreoffice-fresh and libreoffice-still. "Fresh" ist the one with new features and usually with bugs many users can't accept in a production use case. The LibO community does maintain a 2nd branch called "still" for critical use cases. The "fresh" releases becomes the new "still" release when a new major "fresh" release happens after 6 months. In the past Arch shipped the "fresh" releases from .1 or .2 minor releases but they were still very fresh and sometimes a serious feature is still broken at that time. Pointing user to ABS and "patch yourself" is pretty unfair with that large package that takes ages to compile. So we went forward and ship now both branches. This will also help upstream with more users of the fresh branch and earlier bug reports from a distribution use. About the name "still": That's an upstream decision we take over. We don't want to prefer one or the other branch. So there is no more a simple "libreoffice" package. pacman -S libreoffice should force the users to decide one or the other branch. http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-Still-tt4117297.html There's some info from upstream devs about the branch naming scheme. For safety the -still branch packages will replace the old "libreoffice" packages. It's just release in the same branch LibO 4.2.5 to 4.2.6. I'll put a note about the new -fresh branch into the new -still install msg. -Andy -Andy