Testing Mandriva Linux 2006

Posted Nov 10, 2005 14:54 UTC (Thu) by callegar (guest, #16148)
Parent article: Testing Mandriva Linux 2006

Not only Mandriva ships with OpenOffice 1.1... also:

1) The shipped openoffice alltime segfaults randomly opening files

2) Openoffice 2.0 is only provided to club members

3) Openoffice 2.0 is actually not yet provided even to club members as the download site of Mandriva has now been dead for days.

4) The official openoffice 2.0 as shipped by the openoffice website does not do antialiasing correcly on Mandriva 2006.

5) I have filed about 8 bug reports since I have installed Mandriva 2006. While mantainers have been very helpful and friendly providing me methods to solve most of the problems, I still have to see a single bug-fixing package on the Mandriva update site about these bugs.

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Testing Mandriva Linux 2006

Posted Nov 29, 2005 12:11 UTC (Tue) by ranger (guest, #6415) [Link]

1) The shipped openoffice alltime segfaults randomly opening files

Upstream bug ...

2) Openoffice 2.0 is only provided to club members

If you mean the version that shipped *after* the release of Mandriva 2006, yes. If you mean the last milestone release that was available at the time of release, you are wrong. Please see the openoffice.org-go-ooo packages in contrib (and on the Powerpack CDs), which work fine.

3) Openoffice 2.0 is actually not yet provided even to club members as the download site of Mandriva has now been dead for days.

Temporary RPM service migration issue.

4) The official openoffice 2.0 as shipped by the openoffice website does not do antialiasing correcly on Mandriva 2006.

Upstream issue due to changes in how font name replacement/matching is done AFAIK, bug the OO.o developers about it.

Not all bugs necessarily warrant an update (depending on the severity vs risk in updating a package). If it does, it has to go through QA. A number of bugfix updates have been issued, and unless you provide the bug numbers, it is impossible to follow-up on them.