Xubuntu and Lubuntu ship abiword by default. We (Xubuntu) noticed that someone synced abiword 2.9 from Debian testing, but nobody had time to follow up, and it ended more or less like "if no important bug is reported, then this version is ok". No idea for Lubuntu, Julien may know. And unfortunately, bugs were reported after the release.
The revert is almost straightforward: I tried for quantal, a few small fixes were needed because of glib, binutils-gold and one lib that is now gtk3 only, but that was easy. The only reverse-build-dependency (pyabiword) still builds fine. I haven't uploaded to quantal because I don't know the impact of the change: are settings messed up when you do 2.8 -> 2.9 -> 2.8? For precise, I'm not sure the revert is eligible as a StableReleaseUpdate. > Debian testing has moved on to 2.9.3 which is a considerable improvement of > 2.9.2 but it still contains many bugs. On the other hand > Debian-testing is for people who want to help software projects by > providing feedback rather than have code that "Just Works". I guess you're aware that testing is now frozen, so the current version (2.9.2+svn20120603-1) is what will be in the next Debian stable (modulo a few bugfix patches, but I doubt the release team will accept a new upstream release). So it's not really better than Ubuntu... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1019621 Title: Precise abiword version needs to be reverted to stable release prior to 12.04.1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/1019621/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
