Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] Use odt2txt for indexing OpenOffice documents

["Michael Biebl" <mbiebl gmail com>]

2008/5/26 Jerry Tan <Jerry Tan sun com>:
> that's a good news.
>
> > 2008/5/26 Jerry Tan <Jerry Tan sun com>:
> >
> > > but, Michael,
> > > I just read the bug report, it seems that odt2txt can not handle
> > > openoffice 1.x files,
> > > and sxw2text can.
> >
> > Not quite. odt2txt can handle OOo 1.x documents in general.
> > I stumbled upon a few OOo documents though (old ones, pre StarOffice
> > 7), which odt2txt had problems with. This seems to be fixable though,
> > and the Debian maintainer of odt2txt tries to get that sorted out with
> > upstream, so future version of odt2txt can also handle those old OOo
> > documents (it seems to be, that those are documents which don't ship a
> > mimetype file in the archive).

A new upstream version of odt2txt has been released (0.4) which now
successfully handles all .sxw (OO.o 1.x) documents successully.

Ok, to commit the patch or are there still concerns?


Michael

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