Package: wnpp I haven't been properly maintaining abiword. Since I took it over because it was falling into disrepair, it would be ironic for me to hold it frozen in time like its previous maintainer. I have not been using AbiWord often, and am no longer actively involved upstrem.
The package has no RC bugs. There are newer versions available that should probably be packaged. Many people have requested a package of the Gnome build. As the current maintainer I am not interested in this, but the future maintainer probably should implement this by popular demand. However, I insist that a simple GTK version always be available within Debian, hopefully as the default package. Whoever takes over the package should see bug#118221. This bug in a GTK script will cause AbiWord to sometimes link with the wrong version of libstdc++. This can create an annoying dependency, and the last time I looked at this bug the dependency on libstdc++3 that it was creating caused it to be kept out of testing. As a hack, I have been careful to only build AbiWord without libstdc++3 installed. Whoever takes over AbiWord ought to either add a conflict with libstdc++3-dev for the architectures that do not use g++ 3.0 by default, or petition to get the patch included in #118221 applied.
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