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[Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure why SRU would come into play in Lubuntu Quantal since we're still in development?

Since we started using "proposed" repos in the QQ testing cycle I'd think we could just make a decision, then the pkg in proposed could be tested and decided on :^)

What version of 'abiword' should be included in Quantal?

If the policy requires that we ship a broken version when the package maintainer acknowledges that it's broken then I'd suggest we need to review our policy. Or maybe we need to examine the interaction between the release team and the various package maintainers?

If it's no longer possible to include a working version of 'abiword' by default then I suppose we should look at other options, but I personally find that troubling because I've used 'abiword' since Win ME and Lindows - yes there really was a Lindows ;^)

Lance

--- On Wed, 8/15/12, Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.skaggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.skaggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] What can we do about abiword in Quantal?
To: "Phill Whiteside" <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Lance" <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>, lubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Julien Lavergne" <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, August 15, 2012, 11:53 AM


  

    
  
  
    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>
          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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