[Bug 267057] [NEW PORT] editors/libreof fice-still – stable still branch of LibreOf fice

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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 15:16:07 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=267057

Dima Panov <fluffy@FreeBSD.org> changed:

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             Status|New                         |Closed
         Resolution|---                         |Not Accepted

--- Comment #4 from Dima Panov <fluffy@FreeBSD.org> ---
As maintainer, I see no reason here to drop latest *STABLE* release in favour
of *PREVIOUS* stable one. 

Another showstopper here is i18n packages and dependencies. 

Keeping another release in the tree will require to bundle all i18n (All on of
all off without a choice or write a long long set of lang options which is
non-intuitive and confusing users) *AND* all required libraries which can be at
different versions instead of present in the port tree. Office suite is very
fragile and require *EXACT* dependencies versions to build and run correctly.


So my answer is no. Only one stable release will be present in ports tree.
Sorry, pal, but this is a real life. Noone wants to volunteer here and I take
all job with office suite mostly alone, without any sponsorship. 


Even ports quarterly users got a massive update bunch every three month so what
a reason to skip office which releases every 5-8 weeks?

Take a look at https://repology.org/project/libreoffice/badges
Every major distro follows latest stable release of LibreOffice. 

If u do not want updates simply not run 'pkg upg' on your machine.

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