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(Get the code!)
Thanks, Mark, for chiming in.
Indeed LTS does not imply that every major piece of newly released software will be backported, nor is the Backports team interested in trying to do so if it means sacrificing the stability or supportability of the OS...
To move this forward, in my mind:
(1) We don't need any more comments about why we need to move this forward. We understand that generally, folks would like to have the newest OpenOffice release.
(2) Any additional dependencies needed to build OpenOffice on Hardy should be tracked down for us to decide if they are appropriate to bring in.
(3) Furthermore, someone needs to step up to the plate in terms of promising that the (somewhat frequent) security fixes to OpenOffice will be backported too.
A good first step is to attempt to get Karmic's OpenOffice building in a Hardy PPA with as few dependency backports as possible.
P.S. I saw no evidence that the reason there isn't a Hardy OpenOffice backport is a lack of computational resources to build it. Chris's PPA states that he has limited time to maintain packages for all supported releases, which is understandably the case.