"Except that Ubuntu hasn't even existed for more than 4 years." Of course. My point was just that I wouldn't let legacy support depend on just Ubuntu's age and releases. If there is an official guideline on this, of course that would be the way to go forward.
"Also the only thing this package really provides that might be useful is the pre-ODF OpenOffice.org 1.0/StarOffice 5.x support. If users have files in other formats such as Excel, Word, etc for example when coming over from Windows all those are formats still supported even without having this package installed." I don't really see the relevance of the other formats in this bug. What you write is unfortunately not fully true. Many users coming over from Windows will also have old StarOffice & OOo documents. "As I understand it this package really is just a complete copy of the old OOo 1.x codebase beaten into shape to provide support for the old obsolete pre-ODF formats that OpenOffice.org previously used. You said in a previous message that quite a few other formats are supported only via this package, but what are they? I uninstalled and saw at least most of the formats still in the list of supported formats in the file open/save dialogs." That is the whole problem I'm pointing out. Even when this package is not installed, OOo will show all these formats as supported. When you will actually try to open a document however, OOo will fail with a really strange error message. I've attached one of my old documents for testing. "Do you still get pre-ODF OpenOffice.org files or just non-ODF Excel/Word files? Those Excel/Word files will work regardless of if this package is installed." Yes. Again I don't see the relevance of those other formats, they are from a completely different office suite. ** Attachment added: "just some old document for testing purposes" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20185009/School%20-%20ANW%20-%20PO1%20Pasteur.sdw -- ooo-filter-binfilter not installed by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248851 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
