On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:54:15PM +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. > > I googled some information about LibreOffice, which informs me that it > is a fork of OpenOffice. 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.)
The change happened about 4-5 days ago. Debian adopted LibreOffice for the same reasons all the other distributions adopted it; Debian was already using the Go-OO patchset on top of the OpenOffice releases, which is what the initial LibreOffice release is basically, though it now has much more than that. This was announced a while back on -devel as a post-squeeze thing, IIRC. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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