> And in terms of debian, you ARE using unstable, in which the version of > abiword is -cvs. Which should have given you a clue too.
Um, Unstable (Sid) is just that, unstable. Since when did "unstable" mean "unusable"? Minor broken behavior is normal in Unstable. Somthing that is so broken that it can't be used at all and probably will remain in this totally broken state for quite some time does NOT belong in ANY release of debian. Heck, you don't see development (2.5.X) releases of the Kernel in debian or even pre-releases of the stable Linux 2.4.X kernel for that matter. A package needs to be somewhat usable - beta quality. Not perfect, but in a state that the developers feel that that it's ready for further testing by a larger group. The CVS version of Abiword is NOT EVEN CLOSE to beta. It's in heavy active development. To take a random snapshot of the CVS tree and dump that into debian is just wrong. It's just not how things are done. Imaging what Sid would be like if EVERY package was cvs versions? Would anything even compile?
