There is a bug report filed, requesting to update Abiword to the new version 2.6 for Ubuntu Hardy. It does not appear that the desktop team has been notified of it automatically though it was suggested that you folks should have something to do with the freeze exception, so I may as well let you know myself! The reasoning is, in my opinion, indisputable. 2.4.x is now dead; it is not going to receive any updates whatsoever. This means that many outstanding bugs in the package would remain unfixed in Hardy without updating the packaged version of Abiword. I should also take this moment to point out that abiword-gnome is in main...
Further, 2.6.x breathes wonderful new life into Abiword, and it would simply be a shame not to see it in the context of having new stuff. I think Abiword deserves some support since the program is making wonderful progress to being a good, integrated and easy to use alternative to OpenOffice -- possibly worth considering as a default some day. That day when Ubuntu can have a powerful and integrated office suite by default will not come any time soon, however, if the packaged version in its LTS release is out of date by over a year. Such an idea cannot grow support if people are seeing an ugly, buggy and outdated version of the program. (While this is a tad off topic, in my opinion such an idea would be a good one; OpenOffice is wonderful, but totally out of place as a default thanks to its behaving completely different from anything else in this desktop environment; the more momentum towards a full-fledged GNOME Office, the better!). Relevant bug report: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/202174 Thanks, -Dylan McCall
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