I'm not sure why SRU would come into play in Lubuntu Quantal since we're still
in development?
Since we started using "proposed" repos in the QQ testing cycle I'd think we
could just make a decision, then the pkg in proposed could be tested and
decided on :^)
What version of 'abiword' should be included in Quantal?
If the policy requires that we ship a broken version when the package
maintainer acknowledges that it's broken then I'd suggest we need to review our
policy. Or maybe we need to examine the interaction between the release team
and the various package maintainers?
If it's no longer possible to include a working version of 'abiword' by default
then I suppose we should look at other options, but I personally find that
troubling because I've used 'abiword' since Win ME and Lindows - yes there
really was a Lindows ;^)
Lance
--- On Wed, 8/15/12, Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.ska...@canonical.com> wrote:
From: Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] What can we do about abiword in Quantal?
To: "Phill Whiteside" <phi...@ubuntu.com>
Cc: "Lance" <lbsol...@yahoo.com>, lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net, "Julien
Lavergne" <gi...@ubuntu.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 15, 2012, 11:53 AM
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>
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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