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As recently announced on #libreoffice-dev, I consider undoing the basis/brand layer split. Historically, this was introduced at Sun to make it possible for various products (plain OpenOffice.org, Brasilian BrOffice re-branding, Sun's proprietary StarOffice, ...) to share code that is only built, packaged (into platform specific package formats like rpm, deb), and quality-checked once.

With LibO today, there is no real need for that split any longer, so it only complicates our code base. I would undo it in incremental steps directly on master (unless I hit temporary problems that cannot be worked around easily and that force me on a branch of my own). One consequence would be that the 3.5 package and file system layout would differ rather substantially from the 3.4 one (so that, e.g., using some form of delta packages to upgrade from 3.4 to 3.5 would not be a good idea, if anybody wanted to do something like that anyway).

(There is also a URE/rest split, which I will not touch for now. At least Debian seems to be interested in having a stand alone URE on top of which sits a LibO alongside potentially more apps.)

So, if you see any issue with this, please make yourself heard.

-Stephan

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