Re: Libreoffice source disappeared

[Leo Famulari]

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:22:27PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
> The LibreOffice version scheme is described here:
> 
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan#Version_scheme
> 
> It looks like version 5.4.7.2 is supposed to be the 2nd release
> candidate of the 7th bugfix release in the 5.4 series.  This appears to
> be the ChangeLog going from 5.4.7.1 to 5.4.7.2:

Thanks for looking this up. I didn't realize 5.4.7.1 was a release
candidate.

> Is there any reason we shouldn't just use the latest LibreOffice
> release, which appears to be 6.1.0.0?

I did the 5.4.7.1 update instead of 6.1 because I figured it would
probably build without having to tweak the package recipe (it did) and I
was short on time.

There's no reason to delay updating to LibreOffice 6.

> FYI, when I asked on the LibreOffice IRC channel, they told me that old
> releases can be found here:
> 
> http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/5.4.7.1/src/libreoffice-5.4.7.1.tar.xz
> 
> Maybe we should add the "old" archives (and mirrors thereof, if any
> exist) to the list of mirrors, so that when they remove a published
> release, we have a chance of automatically fetching it from the "old"
> archives.  What do you think?

Yes, we should add this alternate address.

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