From http://www.koffice.org/news/koffice-2-1-released/: 'It is not aimed at end users, and we do not recommend Linux distributions to package it as the default office suite yet.' Why, in this case, has the recommended version of KOffice being removed? I can understand the desire to get rid of the old versions of Qt and KDElibs but KOffice is not yet stable. Reproducible: Always
It's been moved to kde-sunset overlay with rest of KDE 3.5.10 and won't be restored to tree.
I know that, that wasn't the reason I filed this bug. koffice 2, as stated by its own developers, is not yet stable. Why is it the only version in Gentoo?
It doesn't compile with autoconf-2.64, kdelibs-3 is vulnerable (see bug 292791 and ones linked there), it doesn't compile with new wv2, and several other open issues we don't want to support anymore. (Yes, all of this is still vulnerable in kde-sunset overlay too, so use at your own risk.) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 292791 ***
So as I thought -- laziness rather than thinking of the actual users.
Stop reopening the bug, thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 292791 ***
Laziness? Quite the opposite. Samuli himself, and many others, worked MONTHS to get new versions and new packages that replace qt3/kde3 ones in portage, and get them all stabilized. The old kde3 is full of security holes and other bugs, and upstream does not care and has not worked on it for years. Gentoo cannot be expected to support old software forever, and the qt and kde teams have invested a lot of work into making the transition as painless for the users. If you still need qt3/kde3, or old koffice, you can get it in the kde-sunset overlay, which is maintained by users. Heck, you can even help maintaining it, if you wish. Don't forget that all this work by Gentoo developers is done on their own free time, without pay. We ALWAYS think of the users, even though they may sometimes be rude and ungrateful, like you. Criticizing is always the easiest course of action.
