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

Il 09/01/2011 16:56, RGB ES ha scritto:
> Good idea! Maybe a wiki page will be enough, but someone from each
> distro with enough knowledge should fill their part.
> On my experience, when giving support to OOo users on Linux many of
> their problems came from distro patches and were not present on
> vanilla build (anyone remember when kde4 integration appeared on
> openSUSE, offering to their users 0 KiB .doc files?).

Or the long awaited pdf export xref bug
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615812
?

Or the recent OpenSuSE build Libò bug
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664516
?

On both I tried helping to solve problems.

Carlo

> 2011/1/9 Jean-Baptiste Faure<jbf.faure@orange.fr>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I see two main advantages :
> > - for users and helpers : they will know easier if a problem comes from
> > LibO or from packaging
> > - for QA : it will be easier to know if a test done, for example on a
> > version from Ubuntu PPA, may be consider as valid or not for LibO from a
> > general point of view.
> >
> > Last but not least, that will increase transparency : we will know what
> > we are talking about when we will talk about LibreOffice. ;-)
> >
> > So, is it a good idea to ask the Linux distributions to publish the
> > changes they made to the official build ?
> >
> > Best regards
> > JBF
> >
> > --
> > Seuls des formats ouverts peuvent assurer la pérennité de vos documents.

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