Re: [PATCH] gnu: libreoffice: Update to 5.1.6.2.

[Leo Famulari]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 12:21:19AM -0600, Alex Griffin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017, at 08:52 PM, Alex Griffin wrote:
> > This patch updates libreoffice to 5.1.6.2, the latest release from their
> > "still" branch (long-term support, stable). Although I think it will be
> > EOL soon, so updating to 5.2.4.2 would be better... if someone else were
> > up to it. The only reason I didn't try moving straight to that version
> > is because my laptop takes ~8 hours to build libreoffice.

I'm currently building libreoffice with your patch :)

> Apologies, this email was poorly worded. Basically, LibreOffice has 2
> supported releases: a "fresh" release (5.2.4.2) and a "still" release
> (5.1.6.2). Since Guix already had the "still" release packaged,
> upgrading to 5.1.6.2 just required a version bump. Upgrading to "fresh"
> requires more work, which I don't really want to do myself because I
> would have to wait way too long to iterate on my changes.

I looked into this recently. I saw that there are many
LibreOffice-specific packages that we should look into updating as well,
especially when we try to update to the "fresh" release. But, as you
mentioned, it's hard to stay motivated to work on the LibreOffice
package because of how long it takes to build.

For now, the "still" release is fine.