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

[Julien Lavergne]

2016-04-10 1:18 GMT+02:00 Simon Quigley <tsimonq2 at ubuntu.com>:
> 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.

This is far too late in the cycle to plan a removal of a component.
The best we can do is try to fix the more problematic bugs and
reconsider this after the release for 16.10. Also, removing without
any replacement is worst. Abiword is far from perfect, but it's offer
some useful functionalities.

Just for the note, the number of bugs is not really relevant. pcmanfm
has 170+ bugs open on launchpad, we still ship it, and it's not more
unstable than Abiword.

I'm looking at the language bug of Abiword, to see if I can make a
quick workaround for the release (which can be push as a SRU, it's not
critical for the release).

Regards,
Julien Lavergne