Re: [libreoffice-users] Raspberry Pi Raspbian - official or port?

The only reason I asked was just out of curiosity, as I saw it in the store
(though unfortunately it won't fit on my 4GB SD that came with my kit -
time to think about running from USB I think)

Thanks for the clarification of the term "fork". At first I thought a fork
was when someone took the code of another app and changed it to work with
their needs (In this case converting x86 code to ARMv6 / ARM11)
On 21 Mar 2013 09:34, "Mirosław Zalewski" <miniopl@poczta.onet.pl> wrote:

> 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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