Hi,
Am 14.02.24 um 17:04 schrieb Escuelas Linux:
[ the LO .debs date after Debian did packages and that was carried over
since ever. oobasisX.Y was done in some OOo time when they thougt they
should do some "debs", after which they just shipped rpms you needed to
use alien for ]
Just one more question. Why are the Debian packages of LibreOffice so
different from the packages produced by the LO source? LO produces a
bunch of libobasis* packages, while Debian does not offer a single
libobasis* package, and they do not even match in name or even
apparent purpose with those produced by LO source.
libreoffice-core
lobasis is a totally nonsensical name to begin with, exposing internals
(basis what?) to the public noone needs.
Besides that the software is called libreoffice and not lobasis ;) (It
contains lo, yes, but...)
Perhaps Debian uses LO source as a base, but also manages a custom
layer to build its deb packages differently? If so, what would be the
advantages of the Debian packages over the ones generated by LO source?
Integration. Proper packaging. (LO has no "real" packages, it has "stuff
just packed up in .deb format). Proper dependencies where needed. Lesser
duplication/getting security fixes directly instead of getting them in a
later release by syncing third-party libs by just having it use the
system version of the lib.
More architectures supported (as you say yourself, no i386 there, no
arm32, ..)
And stuff Debian policy mandates which upstream doesn't do :)
Regards,
Rene
