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

Rene,

On 11/16/2010 06:12 PM, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> 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)
There are more packages that break if combined from different OOo 
vanillas. Ure does just join them, nothing more critical than it was.

>
>> 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.
jvmaccess is _not_ part of the public / stable ABI. The breakage is 
unfortunate but not critical and does _not_ justify a delay.

Go and revert the patch in your source, I ask Stephan to back it out in 
the next OOo or to solve it otherwise. Hugh
>
> Grüße/Regards,
>
> René
Best


   -Kay