On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 19:42 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 18:06 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > [snip] > > > No. This is no bug. This is completely intentional. OOo1 and OOo2 > > > thesauri are incompatile. OOo1 ones won't work in OOo2 and vice versa. > > > Since both use /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst for looking which thesauri > > > are there and each thesaurus registers there both cannot be parallel > > > installed. > > > > I'm sure you've looked into making an /etc/openoffice2. > > > > What's the "can't do it" reason? > > There's no "can't do"; more a "won't do because it does not make much > sense". > > I would need to patch dictionaries-common which contains the script which > generates the file to generate the /etc/openoffice2 one (or add a copy of the > other one) and then call the respective one just for a package which is > experimental anyway and will go away once it is back in unstable... > And I'd need to add a call to generate the openoffice2 one to > dictionaries-commons ppostinst/rm which first has to check whether OOo2 > is installed etc... > > Oh, and then you would need some mechanism to make the 1.1.x thesauri > only add info files for 1.1.x and the 2.x ones only for 2.x and change > the script to take only either one only to revert it once 2.0 becomes > default again. > > This makes no sense for this timeframe where the openoffice.org2 > packages are experimental. They will be back in unstable once and then > the "old" thesauri (only 2..) will be transitioned and /etc/openoffice > will be used....
So, as far as Debian is concerned, once 2 is released 1.x gets sent into the ether, never to be allowed back in? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Temporarily not of Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last." Charles de Gaulle
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