Dylan McCall wrote: > 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!
Thanks for the email, I was thinking about this but hadn't gotten to doing anything about it. > 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... I would like to support this if we possibly can. Abiword 2.6 has been a long time coming, will fix ~7 bugs in Launchpad and despite the bad timing in our release cycle maintaining 2.4 for the LTS time line could be a beast. Upstream has already had over 300,000 download of 2.6 so I would think say something at least of the demand and testing. The "cons" I thought of are: - no time really for translations - possibly break documentation (does Xubuntu document Abiword at all?) - no Debian package as of yet so we can't sync/merge. We'd need to do the packaging ourselves. Lots of good pros and significant cons. If we could pull it off I think it'd be great for our users though. <snip abiword pimpage> > > Relevant bug report: > bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/202174 just my two cents, -Jordan -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
