---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicolás Reynolds <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:31 Subject: [Parabola] Fwd: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice To: Parabola Hackers <[email protected]> this is good news! so far many +1s from the arch community. ----- Forwarded message from Andreas Radke <[email protected]> -----
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 18:45:34 +0100 From: Andreas Radke <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.22.1; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
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
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