FYI -AbiWord no longer "maintained" by Ubuntu

[David Farning]

Awesome!  We have been blocked for some time because, as the email
below implies, part of abiword was in main while some of the
dependencies were in universe.  This made it rather cumbersome.

Now that abiword has been demoted we can start moving forward again:)

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Martin Sevior <msevior at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 09:44
> Subject: FYI -AbiWord no longer "maintained" by Ubuntu
> To: abiword-dev <abiword-dev at abisource.com>
>
>
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Just thought I'd update everyone with this news. It's no big deal.
> We've always received far better support from Debian than Ubuntu.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: abiword
>
> Hi,
>
> Abiword is currently waiting for some universe b-deps, thus holding the
> build.
>
> There seems to be no good reason for abiword to stay in main.
> The Desktop team folks don't care for it:
> <seb128> I don't care enough abiword to write a mir for it
> [...]
> <seb128> charlie-tca, either move abiword to universe or find somebody
> interested to get the build-depends sorted
>
> Nobody is currently maintaining it in Ubuntu, but it's maintained in
> Debian, and there is no reason to introduce a delta because it's in
> main.
>
> If Xubuntu is the only derivative to use it, please demote it in
> universe so we can sync it from Debian (and it'll build correctly). If
> it's still in main because another random derivative needs it, someone
> from this derivative development team should decide to maintain it.
>
> It's stuck like this (poorly maintained) since xubuntu was demoted to
> universe (hardy): the desktop team folks (seb128) keep saying "I don't
> care", we (Xubuntu devs) keep asking to demote it to universe, but it's
> not done because of an obscure reason (edubuntu?), yet no edubuntu
> developer stepped up to maintain it (if it's in main, it means that
> abiword is supported by Canonical, isn't it? This was the reason invoked
> to demote Xubuntu to universe, so please do the same for abiword).
>
> Thanks!
>
> ** Affects: abiword (Ubuntu)
>    Importance: Undecided
>        Status: New
>
> --
> Demote to universe?
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503578
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of AbiWord
> Stable Builds, which is subscribed to abiword in ubuntu.
>
> Status in “abiword” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: abiword
>
> Hi,
>
> Abiword is currently waiting for some universe b-deps, thus holding the build.
>
> There seems to be no good reason for abiword to stay in main.
> The Desktop team folks don't care for it:
> <seb128> I don't care enough abiword to write a mir for it
> [...]
> <seb128> charlie-tca, either move abiword to universe or find somebody
> interested to get the build-depends sorted
>
> Nobody is currently maintaining it in Ubuntu, but it's maintained in
> Debian, and there is no reason to introduce a delta because it's in
> main.
>
> If Xubuntu is the only derivative to use it, please demote it in
> universe so we can sync it from Debian (and it'll build correctly). If
> it's still in main because another random derivative needs it, someone
> from this derivative development team should decide to maintain it.
>
> It's stuck like this (poorly maintained) since xubuntu was demoted to
> universe (hardy): the desktop team folks (seb128) keep saying "I don't
> care", we (Xubuntu devs) keep asking to demote it to universe, but
> it's not done because of an obscure reason (edubuntu?), yet no
> edubuntu developer stepped up to maintain it (if it's in main, it
> means that abiword is supported by Canonical, isn't it? This was the
> reason invoked to demote Xubuntu to universe, so please do the same
> for abiword).
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Reply
>
> Forward
>
>
>
> Reply
>
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> Charlie Kravetz
>  to me
>
> show details 12:08 PM (7 hours ago)
>
> I can confirm this package needs to be demoted if no other derivative
> maintaining it.
>
> ** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu)
>  Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu)
>      Status: New => Confirmed
>
> --
> Demote to universe?
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503578
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of AbiWord
> Stable Builds, which is subscribed to abiword in ubuntu.
>
> Status in “abiword” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
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