ESC meeting minutes: 2024-05-09

[Stephan Bergmann]

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.