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[Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.skaggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I just had a chat with some folks from the SRU team.. Indeed, this 
should be handled as an SRU. However, in order to meet requirements the 
update must not cause any regressions or add any new features. In 
essence, it must simply fix the bug in question and change nothing else. 
By default a stock upstream version of the codebase doesn't meet those 
requirements.

Specific to this issue, it appears like the fixes need to be picked from 
a newer version and applied to the version ubuntu shipped with. Then 
that package can go through the SRU process and get in. Make sense?

Nicholas

On 08/15/2012 12:53 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
> We missed you in the meeting. Please note I do not speak for the 
> release team. However, at this point, any change is likely to need 
> good reason and undergo a lot of scrutiny. They don't want to 
> introduce any regressions, etc. With that said, this seems to me to be 
> a matter of getting a update pushed to the archive. I don't see it as 
> having to be on any particular deadline (other than asap). This should 
> be pushed through as an SRU. Thoughts?
>
> Nicholas
>
> On 08/14/2012 07:16 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> > Hi Lance,
> >
> > I'll add this to the agenda for the QA meeting on 15th August @ 14:00 
> > UTC.
> >
> > As you correctly state, time is running out.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Phill.
> >
> > On 14 August 2012 21:04, Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx 
> > <mailto:lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     I'm just checking a bunch of stuff and preparing for Ubuntu and
> >     Xubuntu 12.04.1 testing next week. I know that doesn't involve
> >     Lubuntu but I have a few pet bugs that I hope to address so I
> >     updated my Lubuntu Quantal on two machines and checked out
> >     abiword very closely.
> >
> >     On both machines I experience the problems explained in comment
> >     #27 of this bug report:
> >
> >     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/1019621
> >
> >     Scrolling doesn't work properly, sometimes the screen flashes,
> >     trying to read some old abiword docs results in large gray or
> >     black "boxes" where there should just be blank page. Basically
> >     abiword is a total mess :^(
> >
> >     Unless  msevior has changed his mind I'd remind everyone that he
> >     said, "As maintainer of abiword I urge you to switch to
> >     abiword-2.8.6. Debian testing has moved on to 2.9.3 which is a
> >     considerable improvement of 2.9.2 but it still contains many bugs."
> >
> >     So what should we do? I think our time to decide is very limited
> >     with a feature freeze coming on August 23rd. I doubt we could
> >     change versions of abiword after that :^(
> >
> >     Releasing a buggy application twice in a row is kind of a bad
> >     advertisement regarding stability so let's please discuss this.
> >
> >     Lance
> >
> >
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