[lubuntu-devel] [Very high priority, needs action very soon] Abiword for the release of Lubuntu Xenial

[Henk Terhell]

+1

The present inability to change language (#1484785) (due to 
incompatibility with latest Openbox?) makes Abiword  in Lubuntu 
completely useless for many.

Henk

Op 2016-04-10 om 01:18 schreef Simon Quigley:
> Walter and Julien,
>
> Abiword is the word processor we have selected for Lubuntu.
> Unfortunately, there are currently 71 different bugs reported in
> Launchpad[1] and 20 bugs in the Debian bug tracker[2]. Abiword is also
> orphaned[3] in Debian. Next week the release candidates land for Lubuntu
> Xenial and I'm concerned that if we ship with Abiword, we will get a
> very bad reputation in the Linux community and more importantly, an
> unstable word processor will ship to our users.
>
> To support this, for the next few hours I will get a daily image of
> Lubuntu Xenial and a Debian Sid install and I will work to confirm all
> the supported bugs.
>
> In the meantime, you may or may not be online, but something needs to be
> done about this. I would support removing Abiword from the Lubuntu image
> altogether. So unless someone magically adopts Abiword in Debian and
> fixes all the bugs in time, which I don't see happening, if I were you,
> I would consider removing Abiword.
>
> Thank you for your time, and I will send a follow-up email soon
> confirming these bugs.
>
> (lubuntu-devel list, I'll update my progress on #lubuntu-devel as I go
> along if you feel inclined to lend a hand)
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword
> [2]
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;archive=0;src=abiword;repeatmerged=0;ordering=normal
> [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740678
>
> Simon Quigley
> tsimonq2 at ubuntu.com
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