Issue 1394 - Please create apt-get:able Debian packages
Summary: Please create apt-get:able Debian packages
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 643
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P5 (lowest) Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: chris
QA Contact: issues@installation
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Reported: 2001-08-02 13:46 UTC by issues@www
Modified: 2003-12-06 14:52 UTC (History)
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Description issues@www 2001-08-02 13:46:40 UTC 
Please create apt-get:able Debian packages.  That would make it a lot more
attractive for me (and probably a bunch of other Debian users) to try out your
office suite.

Should you decide to honor this request, I'd like to see on your binary download
page ("http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/get_binaries.html") something
like: "if you are using Debian, just add the following line to your
/etc/apt/sources.list and do 'apt-get install openoffice'".
Comment 1 Olaf Felka 2001-08-02 14:16:32 UTC 
Hallo Falk,
 something for you again.
Comment 2 falko.tesch 2001-10-11 08:48:29 UTC 
Does this make sense?
Comment 3 Unknown 2001-11-08 22:45:21 UTC 
changing QA contact from bugs@ to issues@
Comment 4 walles 2002-02-24 19:05:57 UTC 
There is a mailing list discussing this at "debian-openoffice @ lists
. debian . org".  It is archived at
"http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/".
Comment 5 chris 2002-08-29 14:17:37 UTC 
There are already apt-gettable packages of OOo, and they are linked at
the bottom of the installation instructions page
(http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/instructions.html).

OOo in Debian: The packages have been already uploaded to Debian and
will be part of unstable once the ftpmasters have done the
administration needed to add a new package.

Debian in OOo: There are a lot of patches that are applied to the
source before building packages, and the RPMers have similar numbers
of patches.  I hope that now that I have been given commit access, it
will be possible to work them into the main source with the goal of
not having to apply patches to build on Debian and other distros. 

It may be worth considering adding distro packaging directories to
make it possible to build directly from CVS, too.

Chris->mh: Should I take ownership of this, since I'm the packager for
Debian?
Comment 6 Martin Hollmichel 2002-08-29 14:45:35 UTC 
mh -> haggai: yes, please.
Comment 7 chris 2002-10-04 19:09:01 UTC 
Change version and priority
Comment 8 chris 2002-11-28 08:58:48 UTC 
Closing issue - OpenOffice.org has been accepted into Debian unstable
today so there are now apt-gettable packages for Debian available,
which satisfies the original request.

(Native support for package creation within OOo is only at the
planning stage so is unlikely to happen before release 2.0.)
Comment 9 chris 2003-11-20 12:57:40 UTC 
Closing fixed issue.