On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 13:25:09 -0300, Marcelo Santana
<marcgsant...@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> 
> Hello Michael,
> 
> > I watched my wife packaging two little programs for the Debian
> > repository (she's  not finished yet, but on a good way.)
> > 
> > My resume is:
> > 
> > It's one thing putting AOO into some deb packages. But it's another
> > thing packing AOO in a proper way, so it's fit fpr the Debian
> > repository.
> > 
> > The second thing is a very hard job and IMO impossible without the
> > friendly support of experienced Debian Developers.
> 
> I absolutely agree with you, mainly with some complex things as the
> AOO's deb packages. I was trying to understand how it was done with
> LibreOffice deb packages[1] but I was worried whether I could take
> advantage of what was already done because of the license. IMHO it
> isn't a working for a only person, mainly thinking about the packaging
> quality to be accept as an official Debian package in the future. I
> believe would be good to maintain it by a team.

[1]http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-openoffice/libreoffice.git
 
> *PS: BTW does anybody know how the AOO's Debian packages are built?
> By chance are they converted from RPM to DEB via alien? Who is the
> responsible for the deb packages building process?
> 
> *PS2: I'm sorry for my not so good English.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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