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
</mc/compose?to=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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