FC1 OpenOffice.org builds

Rob Myers rob.myers at gtri.gatech.edu
Tue Nov 23 16:11:56 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 08:09, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 16:21 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Since FC1 updates have been moved from Red Hat to Fedora Legacy project,
> > I don't have the facility inside Red Hat as the OOo packager (using the
> > internal build system or whatever) to make updated builds of
> > OpenOffice.org available.  However, I've made sure that FC1 builds work
> > correctly by flipping a bit in the specfile, and have built the current
> > version myself on FC1+updates.  This version is 1.1.2-11.  I'd like to
> > make that available to FC1 users since it fixes a wide variety of
> > problems with the FC1 version of OOo.
> 
> Usually we only release security updates, but we can discuss making an
> exception for OOo.

my thoughts are that if 1) it comes from an upstream maintainer, 2) it
passes QA, and 3) it fixes an existing package without changing it "too
much" it should be published.

my $0.02

rob.




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