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

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 15:03 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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?

can you commit to indexer-split branch only for testing

thanks

jamie