Re: [tdf-discuss] security related information, CVE-2015-4551, CVE-2015-5212, CVE-2015-5213, CVE-2015-5214

2015-11-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 11:33:52PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: > Le 05/11/2015 12:19, Caolán McNamara a écrit : > > Bottom Line: ensure you are upgraded to at least 4.4.6 or 5.0.0 > > > > Fixed in LibreOffice 4.4.6/5.0.0 > > > > CVE-2015-5214 DOC Bookmark Status Memory Corruption > > h

Re: [tdf-discuss] security related information, CVE-2015-4551, CVE-2015-5212, CVE-2015-5213, CVE-2015-5214

2015-11-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 11:01:48AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 11:33:52PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: > > Le 05/11/2015 12:19, Caolán McNamara a écrit : > > > Bottom Line: ensure you are upgraded to at least 4.4.6 or 5.0.0 > > > >

Re: [tdf-discuss] Licence

2010-09-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 07:58:36AM +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > Is there a plan to move from the LGPL to the GPL for the code base ? You can't really put all of the code base under GPL; as there are a few public libraries you should be able to link to even from non-free stuff (extensions

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 08:04:29AM -0700, Craig A. Eddy wrote: > listed in the README_en-US file. I'm not familiar with dpgk, though I Then get. You administer a Debian-based system without knowing dpkg? Oh my. (Besides that, http://packages.debian.org/libreoffice has a metapackage - you need at

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 09:03:35AM -0600, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > >unsuspecting users to the same problem that OOo has been famous for: > >there is no obvious way to start to install the files. Dependencies for dpkg -i *.deb? > >each .deb have to be met, but nothing indicates the order

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:28:43PM +0800, David Nelson wrote: > Oh, Wow! What if you're an end user who needs a computer just to do > work on? Does every Linux user have to be a hard-core geek? And if you > own a Windows system, should one study for Microsoft certification > before shelling out you

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 03:15:25PM +0100, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: > So you'd recommend everybody just running a desktop machine and not > wanting to get a full featured serveradmin to abhore debian? No, I want desktop users to know how to use their system. And if they also administer it they s

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
friendly, despite what you want to claim. That graphical tools might make it difficult is no argument. > On 22/11/10 15:07, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > There is no goddamn need for it. (That Ubuntu people in 90% of cases have > > no clue how they do basic system tasks doesn't make i

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 06:50:36PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 03:52:41PM +, Lee Hyde wrote: > > original poster is making. Windows users are presented with a single > > setup.exe while debian/ubuntu users are presented with a multitude of > >

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 04:56:40PM +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: > So, I think that any user guide that makes it easier for computer > illiterates to install a software is always welcome, provided that I > will not install LibreOffice until is available in a repository that > I can access via Ubuntu

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 07:34:13PM +0100, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: > From a geeks point of view You are right. But I'm shure that it is not a > good idea to make all people out there geeks before using a computer or > using office software ;o)). Ah, so we should let people not care about t

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 02:55:22AM +0800, David Nelson wrote: > I am ROFL reading this thread. :-D You obviously are not thinking about the big picture, otherwise you wouldn't laugh. > Rene, I'll write that how-to this week, notably for Ubuntu users, and > then - if it's OK with you - I'll send y

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 07:12:52PM +, Lee Hyde wrote: > Is this Debian repository a dedicated LibO repository or does it contain > other packages? Does it include 64-bit builds of LibO? Other packages, too, but it also is priorized that way that you need to explicitly select what you wan

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 02:28:54PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > open to learning a *few* new things, it is extremely user friendly. > There is, however, a segment of the population that actively resists > learning *anything*. And that's a problem. Grüße/Regards, René -- Unsubscribe instruct

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 09:21:08AM +, Sveinn í Felli wrote: > It's quite surreal to see some power users/developers not seeing or > refusing to see that the whole concept of the software in question > IS a big metaphor: Office. Wrong, I do see it. > And its users are using GUIs and other

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 07:50:59AM -0600, Sonic4Spuds wrote: > This is not the case, many people on debian based systems are new to > linux. Linux Mint and Ubuntu both use debian as their base. These And those still have to know basics. Even totally nonsensical beginner documents I find printed i

Re: [tdf-discuss] 64bit now works in OO

2010-12-09 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:18:21PM -0500, Susan Cragin wrote: > >On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 11:52 -0500, Susan Cragin wrote: > >> LibO_3.3.0rc1_Linux_x86-64 is based on that earlier version that still had > >> bugs. > > > >So, may I ask what the bugs are? > > I don't know. I'm not a programmer, nor af

Re: [tdf-discuss] Just make the damn thing work! (was Re: Dictionary Syncing)

2011-01-01 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 05:07:38PM -, Zaphod Feeblejocks wrote: > American English need an extension before it can use a British English > dictionary? Why > can Thunderbird not share a dictionary with LibO. What about Scribus? MSO > users are > used to a shared dictionary across apps.

Re: [Libreoffice] [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
[ fullquoting for discuss@dfs sake. forgot the CC. Not that it matters much, but anyways. ] Hi, On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:13:48AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:13:43PM +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > It is a good idea to track changes, but it is p

Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:49:51PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > and, possibly, Debian might need to ship an "acceptably free" version > by their own standards if there were any doubt as to the appropriate > freeness of the LibreOffice code by the standards of the particular > distributi

Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 08:07:03AM +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > I am interested to see Rene's input on this as he is part of the > Debian team. Thanks, answered both Andrea and Andrew. Grüße/Regards, René -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive:

Re: [Libreoffice] [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-23 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 07:13:56PM +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Rene Engelhard wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:13:48AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > Besides that, distros will have to continue libreoffice-build, which does > > > still contain patches.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Automatic Update / Update info

2011-01-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:57:33AM +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > I second this as required. I think even Linux but then that will be > distro specific. No. You need root for install, you use the office as user (everything else is broken), you therefore can't ^auto-update because you don't hav

Re: [tdf-discuss] Automatic Update / Update info

2011-01-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
[ please fix your e-mail quoting ] Hi, On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 03:57:54PM +0100, Jaime R. Garza wrote: > You also need Admin rights to install under Windows, but that's not the > point. The point is that the user should be notified that there is a new > version. > > If he or she can install it,

Re: [tdf-discuss] The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3

2011-01-25 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:50:05AM -0600, Jeremy Cartwright wrote: > And I see libreoffice has made it into the debian squeeze main contrib > repositories! It didn't. It's in experimental only right now. Will upload it to sid when squeeze is released. > Would it be prudent, then, to just wai

Re: [tdf-discuss] Reporting Ubuntu bugs in LO - PPA or "Official" LO - Clarification needed

2011-02-07 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:16:34AM -0500, Fabian Rodriguez wrote: > I am not sure the PPA was put together initially by TDF but regardless, Nope. > you now have Canonical staff looking into it, and Debian has LibO > packages in the experimental repository, which to me means everything is http://