[odf-discuss] Smart package manager

[Peter Vandenabeele]

On 1/4/07, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
> Are you volunteering to submit the odfviewer to the repositories of
> Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva, Fedora Core and OpenSUSE and see those
> submissions through to the end until they are accepted some time next
> year?

FWIW, I would be willing to offer some help on the Debian/Ubuntu side
of things (e.g. testing the installation of the .deb on different versions
of Debian and Ubuntu). The concept interests of the odf-viewer
interests me strongly from a professional viewpoint, and I run a few
different flavors of Debian and Ubuntu in physical and virtual machines.
I am not experienced enough at this time to make .deb packages
myself (interested though ;-)

I also offer to help in testing of the functionality of the viewer. E.g. I
reported earlier in an irc to Daniel that converting a .odp file resulted in
quite poor results (most of the colours and formatting of a quite simple
slide was not correctly viewed). Converting a .odt was much closer to
the original, but also not quite perfect.

If you wish, I can start contributing specific reports to a bug tracking
system (but difficult to isolate the problems, since the deviations
between the original and the result seem to be quite gross in certain
cases).

HTH,

Peter