ESC meeting minutes: 2024-05-09

[Timur]

On 10.5.2024. 07:53, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 5/9/24 16:53, Miklos Vajna wrote:
>>      + MAR-based updater will be enabled by default on Windows, but 
>> not Linux (Hossein)
>>        + rpm/deb update is handled by distro packages
>>        + for the ones taking binaries from TDF
>>        + TDF to provide rpm/deb repos?
>>        + the files are hosted already
>>        + just the repo defs are missing
>>        + suggesting to provide these repos
>>        + proposal is to povide repos and ignore MAR on Linux for now
>>        + interested in doing the scripting work? (Miklos)
>>          + the important part is the description / dependencies 
>> (Hossein)
>>          + willing to help
>>        + linux downloads are 2% of TDF downloads (Cloph)
>>          + so not a huge amount, but not objecting
>>          + only the the ones which are covered by rpm/deb binaries
>>        + what is the lag between Ubuntu-provided packages / TDF 
>> releases? (Olivier)
>>          + the package from Ubuntu follows TDF quickly
>>          + similar with Debian, thanks to Rene (Cloph)
>>            + with actively supported versions
>>          + see LibreOffice 7.3.7 for Ubuntu 22.04 
>> https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/libreoffice (Hossein)
>
> And, just to mention it again, for Linux there's also always the 
> Flatpak version on Flathub, 
> <https://flathub.org/apps/org.libreoffice.LibreOffice>.  I'm still 
> providing builds there on a somewhat voluntary basis, usually as soon 
> as a new version of LO gets released.


No wonder that Linux downloads are small, not only because there may be 
more Windows users, but also because LO is already in distro, and for 
Ubuntu-flavor users there is PPA (1). Link would be useful at download 
page (2).

If "TDF to provide rpm/deb repos" is done, it is still of benefit to 
other Linux users, and link is also welcome.

https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/