On Wednesday 25 March 2009, Fred A. Miller wrote:
It's been OVER 5 weeks now, and we can't update our beloved OpenOffice, because the packager can't seem to get the 5 "extension" packages over their dependency issues!! Can we expect that to happen in the near future, or do we have to wait for 11.2?
Urgh, I am sorry but I wasn't ware about these problems. Where do see them? In factory? Have you reported it in bugzilla? Have you reported it anywhere at all? http://bugzilla.novell.com is always the best place to report bugs. I do not have time to read the many opensuse-related mailing lists and forums. Nobody forwarded me any complains until today. Thanks a lot Marcus Meissner for forwarding your mail to me. I currently build the packages for 6 distributions: SLED10, openSUSE-10.3, openSUSE-11.0, openSUSE-11.1, SLED11, Factory. I use openSUSE-11.1 on my machine, so I do most of the testing on this distribution. I do not have time to test on all distributions. This is why the OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE project is important. I hope that I'll get feedback about the important problems before I put it into the OpenOffice.org:STABLE project. Hmm, the packages with extensions are missing only in the OpenOffice.org:STABLE project. It is because the packages are built there the older openSUSE-11.0-like way. It needed some effort to fix the split build (openSUSE-11.1-like way) for older distributions and I didn't have time to do it for OOo-3.0.1 (busy with SLED11, no other volunteer). => the extensions are not be available for OOo-3.0.1. They are optional packages, so they should not break update. If anyone really need them, he should stay with OOo-3.0 or he could try OOo-3.1-beta from the OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE project. Alternatively, he could try to find a volunteer to build the packages for him. I would like to concentrate on OOo-3.1. I have hard times with it as well. By other words. You need not wait for openSUSE-11.2. You might need to wait for OOo-3.1. BTW: You might want to watch my regular announces at http://lizards.opensuse.org/category/desktop/openofficeorg/. I mention there also plans and most important changes. They are automatically posted also at http://planetsuse.org/ Should I use another channel for the udpate? Note: OOo-3.0.1 caused many troubles because it was built the old way, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471280. I am sorry for this. I was really overloaded at the time of the release. Nobody reported the problems in the OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE project in time. I think that nobody really tested it because openSUSE-11.1 was just released at that time and all people played with it. I hope that OOo-3.1 will be much better. -- Best Regards, Petr Mladek software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: pmladek@suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 952 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org