Re: [Libreoffice] Kicking off 3rdparty packages

Hi,

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 04:59:27PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 08:36:35AM -0700, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > > it ships own copies of dozens of standard 3rd-party packages,
> >
> > "standard" from the viewpoint of up-to-date Linux distros, that is. Don't forget that 
> > LibreOffice is supposed to run also on not-so-up-to-date Linux installations. (As far as I 
> > know, the generic Linux build of LibreOffice is, or am I confusing with go-oo times?)
>
> Nah, there's also various internal libs so old that they were even outdated
> years ago (zlib for example)

sent to early. I also wanted to mention what consequences this can have:

*ANY* upload to Debian containing a internal zlib will be automatically rejected. And
TTBOMK there's no way to get anything with internal zlib into Debian as the error
is not overridable.

And that#s pure because zlib gets security issues often - and you wouldn't want to touch
all packages using zlib. The same argument applies to all of the other libraries, too.
3.3.0 picked up libxml2 and xpdf (using xpdf is a bug anyway, poppler should be used) fixes
for internal libraries...

Grüße/Regards,
 
René
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