Comment 57 for bug 669211
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| Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg) wrote | #57 |
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@UWP: That might be strange but it is the standard procedure in every Linux distribution. Only the most recent development version (in this case, Oneiric) has the most recent upstream version and can benefit from bug fixes in that distribution. The version in natty cannot be simply updated to the most recent version as that could introduce new bugs (granted, for a program in an unusable state such at xpdf at the moment, this is not such a big problem). Instead, someone has to identify the changes made upstream that specifically fix the issue at hand, this then has to be applied to the version in Natty, go through review and be uploaded. This process can be quite fast (especially in this case, where regressions are not really a problem), but someone has to do it.
I did not check whether the upstream (which is in this case Debian) changes are easy to backport yet, but I might do later and initiate the SRU process. Note that xpdf is in the universe repository [1] and therefore "not officially supported software", meaning volunteers from the community have to step up.
I do admit though that the launchpad bug status can be misleading, someone should open a bug task for Natty (unfortunately, only members of BugControl can do that) which would clearly show that the issue still exists in Natty.
[1] https:/