On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:14:14PM -0500, James D Strandboge wrote: > I am the maintainer of the gnome 2.2 backport for woody, and I have been > getting a lot of questions regarding the semi-official backport of > openoffice for woody. It depends on woody's libfreetype, whereas my > gnome 2.2 backport needs freetype 2.1.3 (and xfree86 4.2 for that > matter). > > I personally have been using your backport of openoffice, and have > recommended it to a few people because your openoffice packages don't > require the woody freetype. I did have a couple questions though: > > 1. Is your backport basically the semi-official version with the sid > freetype?
My OpenOffice.org packages are a recompiled version of the 1.0.2-1 packages taken from Debian unstable (I'm recompiling them myself since I want to know how the packages I'm providing are built to be able to add local bugfixes). > 2. Do you plan on keeping the freetype dependency as is (specifically, > will it remain compatible with my backport by using freetype 2.1.x)? I can't make any garuantees. My goal is to provide a set of high quality packages [1] with working upgrades both from Debian 3.0 to Debian 3.0 plus my packages and from Debian 3.0 plus my packages ti Debian 3.1. I don't support combinations with any other sources of backport packages (there are _many_ sources for backported packages of various quality). > 3. Are you planning on following the release schedule of the > semi-official version? My plan with the whole collection of my backport packages [1] is to get them into a bugfix-only state in the near future. It's possible (depending on the estimated release date of Debian 3.1) that I'll start another set of packages but the bunk-1 packages will then stay in a bugfix-only state (e.g. they will never include OpenOffice.org 1.1). > Please CC debian-user so this can be in the archive. > > Thanks, > > Jamie Strandboge cu Adrian [1] http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/ -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]