Bug 103067 - deprecated Android Viewer in F-Droid
Summary: deprecated Android Viewer in F-Droid
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Android Viewer (show other bugs)
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unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
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: 104548 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2016-10-09 18:22 UTC by David Heidelberg
Modified: 2018-11-14 11:43 UTC (History)
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Description David Heidelberg 2016-10-09 18:22:31 UTC 
Hello,

currently

1) F-Droid version of Libreoffice Viewer Beta is completly deprecated
2) Google Play version of Libreoffice Viewer Beta is also deprecated
3) Libreoffice Viewer is up-to-date

Could be this fixed? Broken F-Droid version should be replaced by working one. Could this be done?
Comment 1 Joel Madero 2016-10-10 14:41:44 UTC 
We don't actively push to F-Droid, no clue how it got there originally but that party would be responsible for keeping everything up to date. Maybe reach out to F-Droid and see what they say. Closing as WONTFIX
Comment 2 David Heidelberg 2016-10-11 08:34:51 UTC 
I'd like to ask you what about point 2. ? You also don't push to Google Play?


Thank you for your opinion for point 1. Would you consider to also maintain F-Droid repository? As far I know, it's only open-source alternative to Google Play and as LibreOffice tend to be also OpenSource based, it would be great state.

Also in case of F-Droid, there are two possibilities.

1a) As right now, having version directly version inside F-Droid repository
1b) have own F-Droid repository with LibreOffice, which can be added into F-Droid (same way as in Ubuntu PPA)

Thank you for your efford
Comment 3 David Heidelberg 2016-10-11 08:40:33 UTC 
I also documented state on fdroid bugzilla [1] .

[1] https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/issues/529
Comment 4 MTest31 2016-10-24 00:37:55 UTC 
Hi, F-droid packager here. I'm right now trying to get a working build with the f-droid buildsystem so that an updated version can be made available.
Comment 5 Joel Madero 2016-10-24 02:07:05 UTC 
This is going back to NOTOURBUG. Please don't reopen it. I've talked to devs, no we're not going to maintain yet another thing. If the people over at F-Droid want to maintain it, they are welcome to do so, but we're not going to track this on our tracker. Thanks

Reason: It's yet more work on our overstretched team.
Comment 6 MTest31 2016-10-24 13:25:23 UTC 
Joel, this decision is understandable and entirely okay.

I've run into some issues with the build system when trying to compile for f-droid, that most likely are bugs with the build system. I'm reporting them so that you can fix them for future versions, so that f-droid doesn't have to apply so much patching in the future.

Does that sound like a good idea?

Here is the list:

Bug 103443
Bug 103442
Comment 7 Xisco Faulí 2017-05-31 15:14:14 UTC 
*** Bug 104548 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Timur 2018-11-14 11:43:35 UTC 
I asked about this at https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/issues/1443