https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/20230601183054.12057.45907@mailman01.iad2.fedoraproject.org/ LWN.net Logo LWN .net News from the source LWN * Content + Weekly Edition + Archives + Search + Kernel + Security + Events calendar + Unread comments + ------------------------------------------------------------- + LWN FAQ + Write for us User: [ ] Password: [ ] [Log in] | [Subscribe] | [Register] Subscribe / Log in / New account LibreOffice packages Thread information [Search the fedora-devel archive] Matthias Clasen [this message] ` Demi Marie Obenour ` Christian Schaller ` Demi Marie Obenour ` Christian Schaller ` Sandro ` Mattia Verga via devel ` Michael J Gruber ` Matthias Clasen ` Stephen Smoogen ` Peter Robinson ` Stephen Smoogen ` Christian Schaller ` Matthew Miller ` Sandro ` Leslie Satenstein via devel ` Vitaly Zaitsev via devel ` Peter Boy ` Michael Catanzaro ` Peter Boy ` Mattia Verga via devel ` Ben Cotton ` PGNet Dev ` Gwyn Ciesla via devel ` Kevin Kofler via devel ` Jiri Vanek ` Ivan Chavero ` blinxen ` Terry Bowling ` Peter Robinson ` Robert Marcano via devel ` Ralph Bromley ` Ralph Bromley ` Peter Boy ` Samuel Sieb ` Vitaly Zaitsev via devel ` John Iliopoulos ` Michael Catanzaro From: Matthias Clasen To: devel-AT-lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: LibreOffice packages Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:30:54 -0000 Message-ID: <20230601183054.12057.45907@mailman01.iad2.fedoraproject.org> Hey, as you've probably seen, the LibreOffice RPMS have recently been orphaned, and I thought it would be good to explain the reasons behind this. The Red Hat Display Systems team (the team behind most of Red Hat's desktop efforts) has maintained the LibreOffice packages in Fedora for years as part of our work to support LibreOffice for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We are adjusting our engineering priorities for RHEL for Workstations and focusing on gaps in Wayland, building out HDR support, building out what's needed for color-sensitive work, and a host of other refinements required by Workstation users. This is work that will improve the workstation experience for Fedora as well as RHEL users, and which, we hope, will be positively received by the entire Linux community. The tradeoff is that we are pivoting away from work we had been doing on desktop applications and will cease shipping LibreOffice as part of RHEL starting in a future RHEL version. This also limits our ability to maintain it in future versions of Fedora. We will continue to maintain LibreOffice in currently supported versions of RHEL (RHEL 7, 8 and 9) with needed CVEs and similar for the lifetime of those releases (as published on the Red Hat website). As part of that, the engineers doing that work will contribute some fixes upstream to ensure LibreOffice works better as a Flatpak, which we expect to be the way that most people consume LibreOffice in the long term. Any community member is of course free to take over maintenance, both for the RPMS in Fedora and the Fedora LibreOffice Flatpak, but be aware that this is a sizable block of packages and dependencies and a significant amount of work to keep up with. Matthias _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-cond... List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists... Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue Copyright (c) 2023, Eklektix, Inc. Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds