On 20/03/2013 at 22:20, Kieran Peckett <crazyskeggy@gmail.com> wrote:
Just a quick question: Is the version of LibO on the Pi Store (an app store
for the Raspberry Pi's Rasbpian distro) an official build supported by TDF
or is it a fork of LibO?
It's hard to tell. It depends of your understanding of "official" and "fork".
They are not "official" in the meaning that TDF does not provide arm build of
LO. That also means that .debs downloaded from TDF site will not work on your
Raspberry Pi.
But they are not "fork" either, as they don't have separate branding, their
own website, team of developers or any new features.
In fact, these are binary packages build on Debian infrastructure from TDF
sources, with some downstream (Debian-specific) patches. Such patches usually
provides better integration of program with distro-specific tools or fixes
compilation errors on architectures not supported by upstream, but supported
by distro (and Debian supports nine architectures, while TDF only two).
Sometimes they also provide features or fixes from newer version of software;
but as far as I am aware, Debian LO maintainers tend to not backport anything.
Another question is: what does it change, if packages are "official"? It's not
that TDF provides any commercial user support anyway.
--
Best regards
Mirosław Zalewski
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