FYI -AbiWord no longer "maintained" by Ubuntu

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
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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

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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!
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Charlie Kravetz
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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
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