Re: 2.9.2 in Xubuntu - strange behavior. Bugs?

Hubert Figuière <[email protected]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:38:29 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.editors.abiword.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 05/07/12 03:56 PM, Martin Sevior wrote:
> 
> Yes. Ubuntu were very stupid to distribute a very early release of our
> development version of abiword. Fedora 17 have abiword-2.8.6 which is
> very stable.
> 
> Ubuntu are even more stupid in that will not distribute a more up to
> date version of abiword until their next release which is 12.10
> 
> Altogether a very frustrating distro. It's great pity they have so
> much mind share.


The worse is that they blame Debian for that. See Debian bug 677402 I
filed recently.
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=677402

I guess it is time I write a lengthy reply to it.

*sigh*

Hub
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