Hello! I want to say, that you're talking about big problems that can happen in future. We need to make usable openoffice packages now. Frankly speaking, openoffice package that I've released on ~nidd/debian/unstable is buildable by autobuilder.
If you could help us with making this package (good postinst/prerm scripts registering components??), you are welcome. But your words about ``future problems'' are not really helpful for us. Sorry, if my letter seems to be offensive, it's not true. "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Jan-Hendrik Palic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011028 12:33]: > > Peter has made a picture [2] with the builddependency- tree, that shows us, > > splitting the source is impossible. > > [2] http://www.altlinux.ru/~nidd/oo/oo-components-depends.psz > > Wow, I had expected an much more complex tree. If you remove everything > that should be replaced by in the final packages with the libraries > supplied with debian, than there is not that much remaining. > > I had expected quite an mess, but it seems to have clear hirachies. I > think most bejond the "odk" (Meta-)Package can be put in 2-5 Packages > (perhaps also in 1, but I think if people adopt the odk for other > projects, they will be glad to get it in reasonable sub-packages), > > The parts around the "chaos" might be worth to investigate, perhaps > there will be some work upstream about this. > > I still think splitting the source in packages is the way to go for > OOo in the long run. Upstream is modular, and reflecting this in > the packaging will help the builders and perhaps allowing other > odk-software to be packages easily. (If it will exist some day). Please, can you be more verbose? I still don't understand why splitting source in several source packages will help. It won't help autobuilders anyhow. I don't see any matter to do it, and it is quite hard to do. Could describe your point of view in details? > In the meantime I think it is an good idea if we have one or some packages, > that are not that much changed from upstream, as it fullfills an need > for them, that is somewhat urgent. > As these packages will most likely not work together with the > autobuilders (they do not have /proc mounted in the chroot, do they?) Of course they do! -- Peter Novodvorsky http://www.altlinux.ru/ AltLinux Team, Russia Debian.Org http://debian.org/~nidd Debian --- no need to wait for tomorrow.
