Scribus 1.3.9 is in the Debian testing repository. deb http://debian.scribus.net/debian/ testing main
and works OK on my unstable system. Mixing testing with unstable is not something I normally like to do but I couldn't wait. I think the unstable version is being held up by Debian because of Scribus bug #9549. Perhaps someone can tell us if the bug will be fixed soon or will it have to wait until the next minor upgrade? Keith
