Summary: | 3.4beta2 can neither be installed as update to 3.3.2 nor alongside 3.3.2 because of packaging conflicts | ||
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Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Christian Lohmaier <lohmaier> |
Component: | Installation | Assignee: | Petr Mladek <pmladek> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | blocker | CC: | fridrich.strba, glgxg, pmladek, susancragin, thb, tlillqvist |
Priority: | highest | ||
Version: | 3.4.0 Beta2 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux (All) | ||
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Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
Bug Depends on: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 35673 |
Description
Christian Lohmaier
2011-04-24 14:38:32 UTC
*** Bug 36457 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This is IMO a duplicate of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31747 [Bug 31747 - broken debian files ] No, 31747 is no duplicate. Only the very last comment is the same problem, but the rest of the problem is about a conflict of en-US vs. en-us. bug #31747 is a mutating issue (turning from problem A in completely different problem B). Dealing with those issues is a pain in the a… and in most cases it's far easier to write a new bug with a clean, focused description, instead of having to read through pages of comments) This issue: Version part of package name, but files in non-versioned directories Other issue: Something about en-US in the package name, but an en-us in the package's dependencies (or the other way round - no idea whether this still applies, I don't use deb). Steering committee has decided to allow to install LO-3.3 and LO-3.4 in parallel, see http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-April/011185.html I am going to fix the linux part: * rename libreoffice3 packages to libreoffice3.4 * change the default prefix from /opt/libreoffice to /opt/libreoffice3.4 * keep user configuration in ~/.libreoffice/3 Fridrich, Tor, Thorsten, could you please do something similar on Windows and MAC for LO-3.4.0-rc1 release? So when the steering committee decided to "allow" a parallel installation, did they mean that this should be *optional*? I.e. that it should be possible for the user to *choose* whether to install 3.4 in parallel with an earlier LO installation, or whether to let it overwrite/override it? That will be quite hard to implement on Windows at least, without actually providing two separate sets of installers for two completely separate products, one which is a new version of the LibreOffice product, one which is a new LibreOffice3.4 product. (In reply to comment #4) > I am going to fix the linux part: > > * rename libreoffice3 packages to libreoffice3.4 > * change the default prefix from /opt/libreoffice to /opt/libreoffice3.4 Done Note that even the desktop integration packages can be installed installed in parallel. Everything is versioned, including desktop menu entries and the libreoffice3.4 wrapper. There was a long discussion and it is not easy to do this for Windows. Though, we decided to produce non-conflicting daily builds using tinderboxes for Windows (so called dev builds). |