On 07/06/2012 11:15 PM, Micah Gersten wrote: > On 07/06/2012 02:53 PM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote: >> On 07/06/2012 03:31 AM, Lee Gold wrote: >>> 12.04 uses Abiword 2.9.2 >>> >>> This is confirmed as a problematic developmental release on the Abiword >>> mail list...it's gnarly and doesn't work. Considering the fact that >>> Abiword is the default word processor for Xubuntu I'm not sure why it's >>> still the current version in the repositories...at least it was there >>> the last time I checked. >>> >>> Can it be updated in the repositories please? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >> (Forwarding this mail to xubuntu-devel, which is the appropriate place.) >> >> SRU's [1] can be done per-bug basis, but somebody will first need to >> point out which bugs are critical to fix. Before this, there will be no >> updates for Abiword. >> >> Cheers, >> Pasi >> >> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates >> > I brought up the issue of having a development release in the LTS and > people said that if we got negative feedback, we can revert before > release. Unfortunately, now we are stuck with this version. If there > are bugs, we can SRU them. If version 3.0 ever hits the repositories, > as there are minimal reverse dependencies, we can backport it. > Thanks, > Micah > When testing the 12.04, no regressions were reported really, so there shouldn't be anything too critical. Bugs exists anyway though, so there will be some...
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