The Pink Hat Package deal Managers for LibreOffice “have not too long ago been orphaned,” in accordance with a submit by Pink Hat supervisor Matthias Clasen on the “LibreOffice packages” mailing record, “and I believed it will be good to clarify the explanations behind this.”
The Pink Hat Show Programs workforce (the workforce behind most of Pink Hat’s desktop efforts) has maintained the LibreOffice packages in Fedora for years as a part of our work to help LibreOffice for Pink Hat Enterprise Linux. We’re adjusting our engineering priorities for RHEL for Workstations and specializing in gaps in Wayland, constructing out HDR help, constructing out what’s wanted for color-sensitive work, and a number of different refinements required by Workstation customers. That is work that can enhance the workstation expertise for Fedora in addition to RHEL customers, and which, we hope, might be positively obtained by the complete Linux group.
The tradeoff is that we’re pivoting away from work we had been doing on desktop purposes and can stop delivery LibreOffice as a part of RHEL beginning in a future RHEL model. This additionally limits our skill to take care of it in future variations of Fedora.
We are going to proceed to take care of LibreOffice in presently supported variations of RHEL (RHEL 7, 8 and 9) with wanted CVEs and comparable for the lifetime of these releases (as printed on the Pink Hat web site). As a part of that, the engineers doing that work will contribute some fixes upstream to make sure LibreOffice works higher as a Flatpak, which we anticipate to be the best way that most individuals devour LibreOffice in the long run.
Any group member is in fact free to take over upkeep, each for the RPMs [Red Hat Package Managers] in Fedora and the Fedora LibreOffice Flatpak, however remember that this can be a sizable block of packages and dependencies and a major quantity of labor to maintain up with.
Commenters on LWN.internet at the moment are debating its influence.
One identified that “You’ll nonetheless discover it in GNOME Software program, which can set up a Flatpak from FlatHub moderately than an RPM from the distro.”
