Re: [Libreoffice] getting LO into debian

On 11/27/2010 05:36 PM, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 04:22:06PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 04:08:37PM +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> > >     hey guys what is being done to get LO into debian so that downstream
> >
> > It already for almost a month.
>
> to make that more precise: first upload to Debian on *Oct, 13*. Accepted (because
> NEW package) etc.: Nov, 8. That was beta2. Beta3 got accepted on Nov, 18.
>
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/libr/libreoffice.html
> http://packages.debian.org/libreoffice
>
> > >     ubuntu can get it pulled from the upstream debian repository?
> >
> > Ask them, not me.
>
> If they can't do a simple pull in one month, though they are paid for doing it and /me
> who did already the major work (also at nights!) for it, well..

There may be exceptions but I think Ubuntu pulls from sid not from 
experimental as a rule. When the package appears in sid it will probably 
be available in Ubuntu devel version in a short time.

Jani