[plug] OOo 1.9.62 .debs

[Jacqueline McNally]

Hello

For those of you that are not on the OOo or Debian users lists. We now
have .debs for the 1.9.62 developer build - yay!

If you can assist Rene and Chris with this effort, please read below to
see how to and contact them. I'm sure they would love to hear from you -
especially wrt testing for bugs.

Regards
Jacqueline

-------- Original Message --------
I have put up a set of .debs of the upcoming OpenOffice.org 2.0 version
here:

http://people.debian.org/~halls/openoffice/test/ooo1.9-java/

These are .debs generated by the new openoffice 'native installer'
system, and are not of the same quality or caliber as Debian users would
normaly expect to see.  In particular:

       * There are no proper package Dependencies as there is no support
         in the upstream build system for these at the moment.  I built
         these on a mostly Sarge system with mostly internal libraries.
       * pkgcheck gives some errors about *.dpkg-tmp when
         installing/upgrading.  Just ignore them, and this step is going
         to be removed from the postinstall scripts soon anyway.
       * There is no system integration - menu entries or scripts
         in /usr/bin.  Start OOo
         with /opt/openoffice1.9.62/program/soffice

I hardcoded the package generation routine to generate .debs instead
of .rpm.  This will change in the future when the installer generation
script has been changed to accept a format flag.  There is a diff of the
changes I made to generate the .diffs here:

http://people.debian.org/~halls/openoffice/test/ooo1.9-java/m62_generate_debs.diff

If you encounter problems with the resulting build, please file bug
reports in OOo's upstream issuezilla.  And, if anyone has time to help
us, I'd really appreciate it if we could have some help in testing the
bugs filed in the Debian bug tracker, to see if they have already been
fixed in the 1.9x builds:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&data=debian-openoffice%40lists.debian.org&archive=no&pend-exc=forwarded&pend-exc=pending-fixed&pend-exc=fixed&pend-exc=done&sev-exc=critical&sev-exc=grave&sev-exc=serious&sev-exc=important&sev-exc=wishlist&sev-exc=fixed&exclude=woody&exclude=moreinfo&exclude=pending

You can find me or Rene on irc.debian.org, in channel #debian-oo.

Have fun,
Chris