Impress depends on draw

[kmvzxuwi]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org-impress

When I try to remove openoffice.org-draw from my system I also need to remove openoffice.org-impress; this behaviour annoyes me, since I've never ever used -draw (or even the related functionalities), but I frequently use -impress to do some very simple (and very useful) work.

Common functionalities can be exported into openoffice.org-common, or disabled when -draw isn't installed.

This behaviour is common to every version of ubuntu so far, including packages from openoffice-pkgs ppa (openoffice.org 3).

[Urfe (martin-urfe)]

I think this is normal because openoffice.org-impress uses openoffice.org-draw for drawing functions in impress. This is an hard dependency.

[Lupine (thelupine)]

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[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

This would probably require having all of openoffice.org-draw included into a library package except for the wrapper script in /usr/bin/ and the desktop file, so marking as won't fix.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

This might be fixable when we move to ooo split build for Ubuntu 9.10.

[ubby (kostas-sytske)]

@Lupine, this is not a Feature Request but a bug because in Windows you can install them separately.
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/7797/naamloos00.jpg
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First I also thought it was a Feature Request so I post the Feature Request on the Ubuntu Brainstorm but after I have checked OpenOffice.org in Windows I know it is a bug.
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/22194/

[karaluh (karaluh)]

Libreoffice is also affected.

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

[This is an automated message.]
There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

If the problem persists, please mark this bug as "also affects project Libreoffice" or "also affects distribution Libreoffice (Ubuntu)" if that has not happened already.

Please leave references to upstream OpenOffice.org bugs in place to allow cross pollination.

[karaluh (karaluh)]

Problem description:

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install Impress in Ubuntu.

Current behavior:
Draw is also instaled.

Expected behavior:
Only Impress is instaled. You can install Impress without Draw on Windows.

Platform (if different from the browser):

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0

[E-andrzej (e-andrzej)]

This is an ubuntu packaging issue and not a libreoffice issue, hence marking as notourbug.

(Some backgroudn:
Draw and Impress are highly dependent on each other and share most of their code. That means that if you install only impress, you also end up with a lot of draw installed too and vice versa.

On ubuntu most of the necessary libraries are contained in the draw package [http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i386/libreoffice-draw/filelist -- libsd*.so contain most of the draw and impress code]. Thus for impress to work draw is needed in order for the shared libraries the be present. The impress package then simply adds some additional files also needed for impress to function [http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i386/libreoffice-impress/filelist].

On Opensuse the shared libraries are all in the main libreoffice package with the draw and impress packages containing the few additional files needed specifically or draw or impress (registry entries and desktop files, and a few other minor draw or impress specific files), allowing them to actually be installed separately.)

[karaluh (karaluh)]

As you can see, it ISN'T an upstream issue, please change the status.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

karaluh, marking to original Status New, as this is a downstream issue.

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

wont fix. moving stuff in -common would be wrong (that is platform indep). moving it to -core is possible in theory, but would make things actually worse from a practical POV as users whole only install -writer or -calc would have the added unused libs installed then too.