On 09/04/2009 04:50 PM, Caroline Ford wrote: > What you need to do is work out the package name of the version in > jaunty. > > I looked on packages.ubuntu.com and it ends with 0ubuntu6. This means > that there is a maintainer in Ubuntu (and unusually not in Debian). it > does seem that the fixed version is in karmic so we need to arrange a > backport. > > What we don't need is a needs packaging bug, as they are for programs > that don't exist in any version in the repositories. This is more of > an update. > > Caroline > > > Sent from a mobile device. > > On 4 Sep 2009, at 17:10, Patrick Goetz <pgo...@mail.utexas.edu> wrote: > >> We are currently using Jaunty 9.04 (64 and 32-bit) on our production >> desktop systems. A few weeks ago a user asked me for a recommendation >> for an easy to use html editor, and I suggested KompoZer. >> (Suggestions? >> I think I've tried most of them and found them lacking; the original >> Netscape Composer, now found in SeaMonkey still seems to be the best >> for >> fast, simple editing of static HTML pages by naive users.) >> >> The version of KompoZer in 9.04 universe is 0.7.10. The user came >> back >> a few days later complaining about bugs. I didn't believe him until I >> tried it myself. Sure enough, just hovering the mouse over certain >> menu >> items (e.g. file -> recent pages or formatting -> fonts) make the >> program crash every time -- the editing window simply disappears. >> Feel >> free to try it yourself. >> >> It took exactly 15 seconds to confirm that this is a known bug (in >> Intrepid!) and another 5 seconds to find out what it was. Tracking >> down >> the bug involves the following complicated steps: google for the work >> "kompozer" and then click on the first link which appears, the >> kompozer >> project home page, where one finds the following text right in the >> middle of the main page: >> >> "Linux users: KompoZer 0.7.10 is not compatible with GTK 2.14 and >> higher, hence the crashes. Please have a look at KompoZer 0.8 alpha." >> >> Now, is it finally appropriate for me to say WTF? Is the package >> maintainer for this package in a coma? It shouldn't take more than >> one >> use of the program to realize that there is a problem: if the mouse >> pointer comes in contact with the test "recent pages" the program >> crashes. Changing the font, a frequently invoked action, is >> completely >> impossible. >> >> Since we all care about linux/Ubuntu on this list, I presume that I >> don't have to say that we simply can't afford to continue to have >> these >> kinds of embarrassing basic quality control issues. If a package >> isn't >> really being maintained, then it shouldn't appear in any of the main >> repositories. What's the definition of "really being maintained"? >> For >> starters, trying to run the program at least one time with the new >> distribution before publishing. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list >> Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > As i recall the person that started the package "was" maintaining it. However the name escapes me atm. It should be found in package, there should be a changelog for the package :)
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