# there's no cantfix unfortunately tag 447411 + wontfix thanks Hi, Jakob Bohm wrote: > Currently the openoffice.org packages are all built from a > single giant source package. This means that any change to any > part of the suite will cause new versions of all openoffice.org > binary packages for all architectures. That is more than 1 Wrong. You didn't even look. If you did you'd have seen that OpenOffice.org is not available for all architectures Debian supports but only for a subset (altough mipsel and maybe mips will come soon probably) > Gigabyte of files being pushed through the upload and mirror > systems, including every public or private Debian mirror. Right. > While the official Debian mirror network seems not to have > buckled under this presure yet, the load is still extreme, > unnecessary and likely to cause problems for users or > administrators. I myself became aware of it when the size of my > private Debian mirror exceeded the disk size and the directory > pool/main/openoffice.org turned out to be the biggest one by > far. Also correct. > To correct this situation, I strongly suggest that the > openoffice.org source package be split into multiple source > packages such that any one change to the suite (upstream or > Debian specific) is unlikely to affect more than a few source > and binary packages. Figuring out an efficient split requires > detailed knowledge of the OOo source code structure and what > parts usually changes at the same time, so is best done by the > package maintainers. And this also needs MAJOR rework upstream. Which is planned, though, but it's FAR from even being done. Dou you *really* think I *do* like the current situation to having to upload all this stuff? No! But I can't change it. We could split out the help and l10n packages with a hack currently so those packages can be built separately but this would require a 1:1 copy of the openofice.org .orig.tar.gz. The ftpmasters don't accept that for Debian. > As a historical precedent, look at the history of the X > packages: Before the current X.org based modular packaging, all [...] I know. Why did that change? Because X was modularized *UPSTREAM*, Because it suddenly was poisible to build it modularized, before that Xfree86/X.orgs builds were monolithic, too, just like OOo. Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' rene@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73
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