Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:13:43PM +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> On 09/01/2011 Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote:
> > I think that we should have a webpage where Linux distributions who are
> > packaging LibO, could list what changes they made compared to the
> > "official" build by TDF. ...
> > So, is it a good idea to ask the Linux distributions to publish the
> > changes they made to the official build ?
>
> It is a good idea to track changes, but it is probably a questionable
> practice to make changes. I expected LibreOffice to be consistent across
> distributions (something that of course at the moment is not true of
> OpenOffice.org since most distributions apply significant patches to
> it). Are there compelling reasons why distributions should ship versions
> of LibreOffice that have significant changes with respect to the
> "official" version?

I could imagine that, hypothetically, GNewsense, Trisquel, Fedora 
and, possibly, Debian might need to ship an "acceptably free" version 
by their own standards if there were any doubt as to the appropriate 
freeness of the LibreOffice code by the standards of the particular
distribution involved.

In addition, Debian may need to patch heavily to meet the requirements
of some of the disparate hardware architectures, for example.

Likewise, I could imagine Fedora being slightly ahead of Red Hat in
packaging and both being out of synch. with the RPM implemented in 
OpenSUSE, for example.

All the best,

Andy


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