Sorry, I'd not seen this before posting my last reply.
What this really amounts to is disregarding the pkg maintainers advice so we'll
ship a broken version of 'abiword' just out of principle.
That makes no sense to me :^(
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: lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net, "Julien Lavergne" <gi...@ubuntu.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 15, 2012, 12:33 PM
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>
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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