FC4t1 and abiword

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Sat Mar 19 17:21:35 UTC 2005


On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:47:42AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> ... and the general answer was "merge fc3's extras in, fix
> the ones that break".


I am not sure if I understand.  I thought that here we were talking
about packages which were not in fc3's extras but were recently
dropped from rawhide with an understanding that they are
(basically?) going to extras so this is something quite a bit
different to merge.  Number of these packages had various amounts of
work done while in rawhide.  Bugs were reported and fixed and so on.
Sure, some may need rebuilding but you do not suggest, I hope, that
all this work has to be restarted from scratch?

In particular abiword as it was fairly recently in rawhide was not
the same one as that from FC3 (and surely it is not in extras
there).  Moreover ooffice not only does not know how to open abiword
"native" files but it also cannot handle other formats, like
WordPerfect and various RTF, which are not a problem for abiword.

   Michal




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