Re: Minutes for release status meeting from 2010-11-15

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 05:14:45PM +0100, Kay Ramme wrote:
> The bundledness matters insofar as the URE is not separately
> available for download from OOo anymore, thus it is quite unlikely

This is not relevant. You also have a openoffice.org-ure package (which
is what our "ure" is)

> that anybody is going to combine the unbundled 3.3 URE with a
> unbundled 3.2.1 OOo.

People still canleave openoffice.org-ure there
when downgrading the rest. It's unlikely, yes, but can happen.

> AFAIK the symbol renaming is just a declarative fix, reverting the
> patch in LibreOffice should solve the issue without any side
> effects. The patch may than be re-applied with a incompatible URE
> version; or may be abandoned with OOo 3.4.

Yes, but why should we do it if you could fix the library itself properly?
Given you so much are after compatibility a ABI breakage even without SONAMe change
contradicts what you yourself stand for.

Grüße/Regards,

René