You should know replacing Oracle OpenOffice also does the accessibility crowd that uses orca a huge favor too. The Libri OpenOffice packages work better with Orca in several versions and don't crash because orca is running on the systems.On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
On 07.03.2011 18:45, Andreas Radke wrote:
LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos.
First my time is limited. I've asked so many times for help in the Office packaging area and nobody stepped in.
Then there's the poor distribution support Oracle spends on the distributions. They almost do not care about custom distribution builds and their interest. They break the build against system libs every now and then and it takes ages to contact the relevant devs to fix their bugs. Development is only driven by the profit interests of Oracle... You can put in here all the arguments the Document foundation has given at its birth.
So don't expect any efforts to fix bugs in Oracle packages anymore. As soon as they will break due to a .so name bump or something like this I'll remove all the packages from our repos if nobody else is willing to maintain them.
Any objections to add "replaces=('openoffice-base') " to the next LibO pkg?
-Andy +1
Solid and pragmatic suggestion.