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Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 23:17:36 +0200 From: Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kovacs Baldvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#377531: openoffice.org-dev: unowinreg.dll should be included Organization: The Debian Project User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 severity 377531 wishlist tag 377531 + wontfix thanks Kovacs Baldvin wrote: > I did not find any threads on the mailing list about this decision, so > I can only guess about the reasons. And I can't see any valid reasons, > so I'm heavily outraged. It took 4 hours of my life, possibly because > of some windows-hater license-lover guy. There's no source for this. It can't be built. It is binary-only shit. - -> not includeable. Linux is about free software, and shipping binaries you can't reproduce is bad. OTOH, if you sent a patch which makes the .dll buildable from the OOo build process (maybe due the mingw cross-compiler), but it links against kernel32.lib and advapi32.lib... > 1st: because /usr/lib/openoffice/sdk/settings/std.mk refers to this > file, a "make" in /usr/lib/openoffice/sdk/examples/java/Spreadsheet > cannot possibly succeed. However, as programming openoffice is > as complicated as it is, I think this actually prevents those small > "masses" who would be able to dig into it from actually try > to program under openoffice with java. That might be a valid point. I'll look whether it can be worked around... > 2nd: changing /usr/lib/openoffice/sdk/settings/std.mk not to include > the reference to that dll would be a proof of "unusability by > policy", and would definitely make me consider leaving the Debian > camp. Why? Because I want to have a usable system, and not a Debian is about shipping reproducible and fixable packages. We can't fix bugs in that .dll. Debian is about free software; we don't have the source. You are free to package it for contrib, though (building ith with a windows cross-compiler and with the Windows .dlls - or for non-free just taking the binary) And know, you just can workaround it by getting it from some other OOo install. It's not as that would differ, the files is as *binary* in OOos CVS. > religion instead. I want Windows users to be able to use my > programs. That is why I am taking the time to learn this This is not. Setting to wishlist and wontifx. Sorry, I don't like that I have to remove it either but I have no choice. Regards, Rene - ----- End forwarded message ----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEsYIh+FmQsCSK63MRAjUaAJsFu+06E6T6Lx9GG9RJiL+QmowmhACfS+Qh chomIRbe0OyG0yjAAEaTYFw= =A047 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
