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[Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, I'd not seen this before posting my last reply.

What this really amounts to is disregarding the pkg maintainers advice so we'll ship a broken version of 'abiword' just out of principle.

That makes no sense to me :^(

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: lubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Julien Lavergne" <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, August 15, 2012, 12:33 PM


  

    
  
  
    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>
            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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