Rob Weir wrote:
I see that Andrea has entered an issue in BZ for this:
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119229
But no one has explained what the bug actual is.
The description I gave there is a rather accurate description of the bug
itself, but indeed it doesn't explain its effects.
The effect is: if I modify the OpenOffice sources (extensions.lst) in
order to use a newer version of the Italian (or Spanish) dictionary, by
providing a new download link and a new MD5 checksum for it, the build
system (unless we are building on a completely clean system, and this is
a different problem) will continue to use any previously downloaded
version. So the most recent builds from Ariel, for example, do not
bundle the latest Italian dictionary and are not consistent with the
latest source code.
And no one has set the release blocker flag.
The dictionary update is a problem but the inconsistency with the source
code is probably a bigger problem.
As for release blockers, I honestly expect that when RC1 is out we will
have a look at significant bugs that emerge (including a couple of
existing bugs that might not be release blockers by themselves but are
surely significant, like this one
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119229 and the icons
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119208 ) and, if we have
several of them, produce a RC2 instead of listing, say, ten "Known bugs"
in the Release notes.
Regards,
Andrea.
