On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:54:15 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm using Sid. After OpenOffice broke during an upgrade I purged it and > reinstalled, after which it returned to life as LibreOffice. There > wasn't any warning about this transition; it just happened.
Good move IMO, being Sid. > I googled some information about LibreOffice, which informs me that it > is a fork of OpenOffice. Oracle was invited by The Document Project (LibreOffice hosters) to enjoy them but they rejected to parcipate. > Its appearance in Sid seems to be fairly recent > because not all mirrors have it. Is there any information about when and > why Debian adopted this change? (Perhaps there was and I missed it.) Changelog? :-) http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org_3.3.0-5/changelog Or package description: *** Package: openoffice.org (1:3.3.0-5) office productivity suite This is a transitional package, replacing the OpenOffice.org packaging with the LibreOffice packaging. It can be safely removed after an upgrade. *** Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.02.15.16.09...@gmail.com
