issues with oriented text

[avlas]

Current version of scribus in ubuntu (1.4.0.dfsg+r17300-1ubuntu1) suffers of oriented text not being correctly displayed. In contrast current version from Scribus repository doesn't suffer of this problem (scribus_1.4.0.dfsg-1 in http://debian.scribus.net/debian/).

Given that 1) users may not know of the scribus repository, and 2) the scribus repository doesn't include yet packages for precise, I would encourage ubuntu packagers/maintainers to see whether this is a bug in packaging or if instead the scribus package needs to be upgraded to current stable version.

[avlas (avlas)]

Scribus repository is up for precise and with new updated version 1.4.1

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in the scribus packaging since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running `apport-collect 296583` and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Furthermore, you didn't specify the ubuntu release you are running.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

If you are worrying about the missing of the last upstream release, fear no more, in a couple of month I'll uploading that (see bug #1220379)

I've tried recreating this bug with Trusty and was unable to, given the information you've provided. Please upgrade to the latest version and re-test. If the bug is still reproducible please do what I write above.

Do feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[avlas (avlas)]

I would say this is not a problem anymore and you can close the bug.

But I have to say that I stop using scribus from ubuntu repositories long time ago because of this problem and because the package was and still is outdated.

So instead, I have used an up-to-date package from the repository above http://debian.scribus.net/debian/ (scribus 1.4.3), and currently use it from https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/+archive/ubuntu/ppa (scribus 1.4.4)

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:02 PM, avlas <email address hidden> wrote:
> But I have to say that I stop using scribus from ubuntu repositories
> long time ago because of this problem and because the package was and
> still is outdated.
>
> So instead, I have used an up-to-date package from the repository above
> http://debian.scribus.net/debian/ (scribus 1.4.3), and currently use it
> from https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/+archive/ubuntu/ppa (scribus
> 1.4.4)

This is sad, but I understand you: the original debian maintainer
dissolved about one year ago, and the package become outdated. Now I'm
maintaining it by myself.

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[avlas (avlas)]

No worries, I'll be happy to come back to ubuntu's package if it keeps up-to-date

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

This is somehow difficult, due to the release model of ubuntu. I can assure 1.4.4 will be in utopic, but it won't be in trusty, for example...

[avlas (avlas)]

Fair enough....

Firefox and Libreoffice are update more regularly, I guess this doesn't apply to Scribus though

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:05 PM, avlas <email address hidden> wrote:
> Firefox and Libreoffice are update more regularly, I guess this doesn't
> apply to Scribus though

yes, there are exception, Firefox, chromium, libreoffice, and a some
other packages can be updated to new upstream releases even in stable
releases. But they are exceptions, and scribus it's not so important
like them to gain such an exception.