[needs-packaging] Nvu's unofficial bug-fix release

Bug #60353 reported by Louis
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Baltix
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
nvu (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
nvu (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Wishlist
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: nvu

Nvu is full af bugs and a person has started a project that reomove that bugs.
It program is named Kompozer. Look more here: http://kompozer.net/.

Please include this program in 6.10.

Edited by Thomas Hotz:
We should consider to include this package in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.

Revision history for this message
Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote :

NVU in Ubuntu and Debian should be replaced with Kompozer, as NVU is not mainained by upstream developers more than one year and isn't planing to be maintained - main developer in his blog told:

'For those who did not get the message :Nvu 1.0 is - for me - a dead end. Just like Seamonkey was left to the community, I am glad to leave Nvu 1.0 codebase to Kazé who started integrating bug fixes but I remind him that Nvu is a trademark by Linspire Inc. That's good he used a new name, Kompozer, for his fork. I just cannot work on Nvu 1.0 and Mozilla Composer, its xulrunner-based successor at the same time.'

(see http://glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?2006/09/17/2081-mozilla-composer-features )

So, why to keep buggy and not maintained software in Ubuntu, when there is maintained version and main nvu developer is glad to leave Nvu developing to Kompozer's developers ?

Changed in nvu:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Revision history for this message
Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote : Nvu web page creator should be replaced by it's fork Kompozer !

I think importance of this bug should be increased, as NVU is abandoned by upstream and also removed from debian archive, look at http://bugs.debian.org/393065

From: Debian Archive Maintenance <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Bug#393065: fixed
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:27:30 -0700

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

       nvu | 1.0final-2 | source, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
   nvu-dev | 1.0final-2 | all

Debian also will package kompozer instead of removed nvu, look last commens on http://bugs.debian.org/393065

Changed in nvu:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
description: updated
Revision history for this message
William Grant (wgrant) wrote : Nvu is no longer in the archive

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  affects ubuntu/nvu
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Nvu was removed from Feisty some time ago due to being unmaintained
upstream.
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William Grant (wgrant)
Changed in nvu:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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