Bug#435562: gnome-office: Is it possible to add dependency on OpenOffice

[Hongzheng Wang]

Package: gnome-office
Version: 1:2.18.3
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

This is not a bug, just a good wish.

The package gnome-office currently depends on abiword, and I believe
such a decision does be reasonable.  But I found abiword is actually
seldom be used if OpenOffice exists in the work environment arround me.
In fact, although OpenOffice is much larger than abiword in size, its
productivity exceeds abiword without doubt, which results in the
situation mentioned above.  Therefore, I wonder if gnome-office can be
added an optional dependence on abiword or OpenOffice, so that users
could be given the opportunity to select proper package on themselves.

Thanks.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-office depends on:
ii  abiword-gnome                 2.4.6-2.1  WYSIWYG word processor based on GT
ii  dia-gnome                     0.96.1-3   Diagram editor (GNOME version)
ii  gimp                          2.3.15-1   The GNU Image Manipulation Program
ii  gnome-core                    1:2.18.3   The GNOME Desktop Environment -- e
ii  gnumeric                      1.7.8-1    GNOME spreadsheet application
ii  inkscape                      0.45.1-1   vector-based drawing program
ii  planner                       0.14.2-3   project management application

gnome-office recommends no packages.

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