Re: [steering-discuss] Vendor string usage in third-party package of LibreOffice

Hi,

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 05:24:19PM +0200, André Schnabel wrote:
> Am 12.05.2011 15:29, schrieb Francois Tigeot:
> > ...
> > I'm starting to realize the "vendor" term should be defined: I'm only writing
> > packaging scripts, and many third-parties could use them to provide finished
> > binary packages.
>
> In this context you may see TDF as "the original manufacturer" (of
> the source code) while you are the "immediate supplier" (of the
> final package containing your modifications).

Okay. In this context, the vendor would be the packager then.

> Why not use something like "NetBSD pkgsrc Team" - this is more or
> less what the Linux distributions do. They use "LibreOffice" but a
> different vendor string, which proudly states that they did invest
> some effort to bring the packages to their users.

Well, I asked the question to a group of pkgsrc developers first, and the
answer I got was to use The Document Foundation name ;-)
The wording on the website heavily influenced the discussion towards this
result.

Since I wasn't sure about that, I also wanted to have some opinion from the
LibreOffice side.

> Ok, this is beyond my expertise. If it was possible to include all
> what is neede in our build environment, so that anybody (any member
> of TDF) could do exactly what you do - I'd agree, you use "The
> Document Foundation" vendor string.

I'm not sure of the prerequisites myself.

> This would of likely mean some
> work (integrating your modifications upstream, testing it, maybe
> making it generic ...). But by doing all this you would qualify as
> TDF member - and this would be agin for me be an indication to use
> "The Document Foundation" vendor string.

Hmm, another complication here: I'm a committer and I did this sort of work
in the last few months to port LibreOffice to the DragonFly BSD operating
system.
There were many OpenOffice-specific patches in pkgsrc in the past, and they
have been integrated in the LibreOffice tree by other people.

So far, there is no modification to the source code of LibreOffice in my
prototype packaging configuration.

> Anyway - at this point I'd like to see the input of other SC-members
> who have a better understanding what happens technically.

Sure. It would be good to be sure what to do in this case.

-- 
Francois Tigeot

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