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Last week i saw a couple of times that "Fedora killed libre office" but still don't understand why and how. Someone is so kind to explain that to me? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Fedora didn't do anything to Libreoffice. Red Hat had been the maintainer for the Libreoffice packages in Fedora up until a couple of weeks ago. The package became an orphan, and without anyone to maintain it, would end up being dropped from the distribution. For the time being, it looks like some people from the community have stepped up to maintain Libreoffice in Fedora.

So unless something happens and the current maintainers are unable to keep up, nothing should happen to Libreoffice in Fedora.

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