Comment 1 for bug 373460

Moving conversation from private mail to here; Chris' reply:

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 10:02 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello Chris,
>
> Chris Cheney [2009-05-04 12:03 -0500]:
> > As far as I know I believe the packages below were only added to main
> > for OOo so probably could be demoted to universe and be replaced by the
> > new packages listed. Do they need MIRs written up as they are
> > essentially just forks of packages already in main?
>
> They don't need MIR wiki pages, but please open a bug report and
> subscribe ubuntu-mir, with the list below. Then we have a track
> record.
>
> It just seems strange to me why the packages were forked in the first
> place? What's wrong with using the standard packages? Duplicating code
> is always nasty and a maintenance nightmare, so we should think twice
> before we do this IMHO.

Well they make patches to programs they use and the normal build
procedure is to just use all of the 3rd party code that is shipped in
the OOo tarball. Those were split out in Debian and this is the result.
Long term it would definitely be a good idea to get all of those things
merged back with upstream if at all possible.