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Can I upload upstream's openoffice to my ppa?

Asked by Bryan Quigley

I was wondering if I could get permission to upload the official upstream OpenOffice.org into my PPA as binary debs. I'd like to do this because I believe it will help with letting Ubuntu users easily test if the bug is local to Ubuntu or upstream. Being the same binaries as upstream is essential for easy submitting of crash reports to upstream's bug tracker (using their bug reporter).

Thanks,
Bryan

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Best Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) said : 		#1

Hi

Unfortuntately you cannot upload binaries to a PPA. This is important because it allows the service to guarantee that:
a) the source for the code is published (which is an open source licensing requirement)
b) it guarantees that the source in the PPA was used to build the binary you're downloading.

There's nothing wrong with you uploading the upstream source; however before you do this you should check to see if someone else hasn't already done the same thing. It's a pretty big source and takes a long time to build.

Regards
Julian

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) said : 		#2

By the way, that wasn't meant to discourage you from uploading it. I'd definitely like to see more of upstream's latest code on Ubuntu, and we're going to be doing more of that in the Daily Builds [1] project which is being unleashed very soon.

[1] https://dev.launchpad.net/BuildBranchToArchive

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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) said : 		#3

Thanks Julian Edwards, that solved my question.