Comment 39 for bug 519541
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| Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) wrote | #39 |
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@ arand
If the release team failed to approve uploading 2.8.4, then I think it is most likely that the SRU team will not let it in as an update either. The best hope for fixing this directly in Lucid seems to be to bisect the actually change that fixes this specific problem. As soon as Maverick's archive opens, I will upload 2.8.4-0ubuntu1 that is currently in my PPA linked above. Then we can push this into lucid-backports.
@ msevior
I certainly agree this is an unfortunate set of events. The problem is that there doesn't seem to be anyone very actively maintaining abiword in Ubuntu, and 2.8.2 is the version we inherited from Debian. It looks like Lionel has put some work into it, but I imagine Xubuntu is under manned as it is. I personally agree that 2.8.4 should have been included in Lucid, but I understand the Release team's concerns about the timing as well. It comes down to the fact that we are not a rolling release distro. We have to choose a cut off date in order to maintain the stability of the distro as a whole, and sometime individual packages are hurt by this fact. I wish I had a better answer for you....