On 07/06/2012 04:03 PM, Simon Steinbeiß wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:43:52 +0300 > Pasi Lallinaho <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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... >> >> Pasi > Personally I consider it really bad that we shipped a (random) snapshot of > Abiword. (I know it wasn't decidedly the fault of the Xubuntu team, but we > should've maybe started shouting earlier and louder.) The visual glitches > that couldn't be sorted (LP: #948128) are quite obvious and in my opinion > also critical, because they suggest that the software isn't reliable if it > looks so bad. > > I think we should strive to ship a more solid version in 12.10, since 3.0 > most likely won't be released in time (and anyway, it doesn't mean bugs like > above are fixed!), I'd suggest going back to the stable 2.8 version. Lionel > tested that recently and it seems to work without many changes (mostly > dropping a lib). > > - Simon > I shouted very early and very loudly :) No one brought any of the critical bugs up throughout the LTS cycle AFAIK. I don't see reverting in quantal as an option either as that would impact the other pieces in the archive as well. I think we're committed to the snapshots at this point. If there's no ABI breakage, we can try for a provisional MRE [1] due to extenuating circumstances.
Thanks, Micah [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/MicroReleaseExceptions -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
