I spoke with Chris today in detail about this, and he doesn't sound terribly confident yet that openoffice.org 3's final release is not going to have some major bugs discovered in the near future. Since he is most familiar with their release cycle and previous track record, I am going to go with his opinion on this.
since it sounds like the side-by-side installation packaging is broken beyond repair for now, I am very wary about replacing Hardy's Openoffice with a version that is not very well tested (particularly since as of now the way to uninstall a backport and revert to the regular version for complex multi-deb packages is not supported/tested). Let's wait a bit and see how Openoffice is for Hardy. As far as Intrepid, I think we can be slightly less cautious but not that much so. Ideally it'd be nice to have a 3.0.1-type release before we go around replacing Openoffice. Since Ubuntu uses an ooo-build brand of Openoffice some of the large benefits of OOo3 (like Office 2007 XML support) has been available in our 2.4 builds for a while. Bottom line is I don't think anyone will suffer too greatly without it for a little bit while we carefully figure out our best path forward from here. -- Please backport OpenOffice.org 3 to Hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283137 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Backports Testing Team, which is subscribed to Hardy Backports. -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports