Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Red Hat's Matthias Clasen has letit be known that LibreOffice will be dropped from a future Red HatEnterprise Linux release, and the future of its support in Fedora isunclear as well.

The Red Hat Display Systems team (the team behind most of Red Hat'sdesktop efforts) has maintained the LibreOffice packages in Fedorafor years as part of our work to support LibreOffice for Red HatEnterprise Linux. We are adjusting our engineering priorities forRHEL for Workstations and focusing on gaps in Wayland, building outHDR support, building out what's needed for color-sensitive work,and a host of other refinements required by Workstation users. Thisis work that will improve the workstation experience for Fedora aswell as RHEL users, and which, we hope, will be positively receivedby the entire Linux community.

The tradeoff is that we are pivoting away from work we had beendoing on desktop applications and will cease shipping LibreOfficeas part of RHEL starting in a future RHEL version. This also limitsour ability to maintain it in future versions of Fedora.