Yes, I just had a chat with some folks from the SRU team.. Indeed, this
should be handled as an SRU. However, in order to meet requirements the
update must not cause any regressions or add any new features. In
essence, it must simply fix the bug in question and change nothing else.
By default a stock upstream version of the codebase doesn't meet those
requirements.
Specific to this issue, it appears like the fixes need to be picked from
a newer version and applied to the version ubuntu shipped with. Then
that package can go through the SRU process and get in. Make sense?
Nicholas
On 08/15/2012 12:53 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
We missed you in the meeting. Please note I do not speak for the
release team. However, at this point, any change is likely to need
good reason and undergo a lot of scrutiny. They don't want to
introduce any regressions, etc. With that said, this seems to me to be
a matter of getting a update pushed to the archive. I don't see it as
having to be on any particular deadline (other than asap). This should
be pushed through as an SRU. Thoughts?
Nicholas
On 08/14/2012 07:16 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
Hi Lance,
I'll add this to the agenda for the QA meeting on 15th August @ 14:00
UTC.
As you correctly state, time is running out.
Regards,
Phill.
On 14 August 2012 21:04, Lance <lbsol...@yahoo.com
<mailto:lbsol...@yahoo.com>> wrote:
I'm just checking a bunch of stuff and preparing for Ubuntu and
Xubuntu 12.04.1 testing next week. I know that doesn't involve
Lubuntu but I have a few pet bugs that I hope to address so I
updated my Lubuntu Quantal on two machines and checked out
abiword very closely.
On both machines I experience the problems explained in comment
#27 of this bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/1019621
Scrolling doesn't work properly, sometimes the screen flashes,
trying to read some old abiword docs results in large gray or
black "boxes" where there should just be blank page. Basically
abiword is a total mess :^(
Unless msevior has changed his mind I'd remind everyone that he
said, "As maintainer of abiword I urge you to switch to
abiword-2.8.6. Debian testing has moved on to 2.9.3 which is a
considerable improvement of 2.9.2 but it still contains many bugs."
So what should we do? I think our time to decide is very limited
with a feature freeze coming on August 23rd. I doubt we could
change versions of abiword after that :^(
Releasing a buggy application twice in a row is kind of a bad
advertisement regarding stability so let's please discuss this.
Lance
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