request for openoffice 2.10 backport (to Edgy)

[RichardNeill]

Please could we have a backport of OpenOffice.org 2.10 to Edgy?

The OpenOffice fonts look really poor (to the point of being awkward to read). The bug was fixed upstream some time ago, but nothing has so far made it into an Edgy bugfix (so I suspect it isn't going to be fixed in Edgy, hence the request for a backport). There is more information in this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=294227

OOo 2.10 is available in Feisty, and it does, I think, meet the criteria.
[I've already tried to build my own version using prevu, but failed to do so.]

Thanks very much - Richard

[Andrea76 (andrea76)]

+1. Agreed.

[Valentin Rocher (bishiboosh)]

It has already been said here OOO.org is too heavy to be backported.

-1 so.

[John Dong (jdong)]

Does not backport

[RichardNeill (ubuntu-richardneill)]

I know OOo is a large (300MB) package, but how is it too "heavy"? Heavy surely means that a lot of packages depend upon it (eg libc) which is just not true in this case. Also, we really need either a backport or a bugfix for the font issue - OOo is almost unusable in Edgy; is either likely to be forthcoming?

[John Dong (jdong)]

Heavy does not mean the size of the package, it means
(1) The package in its current state does not build on Edgy
(2) None of the backporters have any experience with backporting Openoffice
(3) Any attempt to correct a build failure will take at least 12 hours to compile (to either success or failure)

2.1 packages will either have to come from Matthias Klose (doko) or the edgy-updates repository