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Re: Tips for libreoffice backporting



On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:41:46AM -0500, Félix Arreola Rodríguez wrote:
> Well, Yes 3.4.x is a very good release, but I'm having some problems

Actually, 3.4.x ia a BAD release compared to 3.5.x...

> If you backport 3.5.x I will be eternally grateful. But right now I'm

Just running a testbuild with...
(and some crude hacks).

> > - debian/rules relies on /usr/share/dpkg/*.mk which makes it need dpkg-dev
> > from squeeze-backports (no big deal).
> > 
> > - you need to add a patch to revert the adaptions for new poppler as
> > there's no support for the old poppler in  squeeze anymore afair
> > (or you use the internal xpdf, which is  there right now but I don't believce
> > this is a very  good idea.
> > more an option is disabling -pdfimport which is a not really
> > needed extension anyways.)
> > 
> 
> I'm lost about that. Other option could be backport poppler?
> 
> > - root@frodo:/# apt-get install librsvg2-dev gdb junit4 libservlet2.5-java libsampleicc-dev libicc-utils-dev libgtk-3-dev
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree       
> > Reading state information... Done
> > E: Unable to locate package libsampleicc-dev
> > E: Unable to locate package libicc-utils-dev
> > E: Unable to locate package libgtk-3-dev
> > 
> > Needs to use internal sampleICC (add to the respective filter-out) and
> > disable gtk3 stuff.
> > 
> 
> Is posible to disable gtk3 and enable gtk2? I mean, if not, the
> libreoffice-gtk will be lost.
> 
> > - dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libservlet2.5-java (<< 1.1.1-9)
> > 
> > is the last thing after the above, which need to be looked at
> > (BEWARE: flaky get-the-info-from-other-package)

... those (the last one crudely hacked around)

Regards,

Rene


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