Comment 10 for bug 202174

Just tossing in my 2 cents here:

2.6.0 has a number of visible changes, but the older version is unlikely to have a significant ammount of support going into the future. This means that, if any errors are observed with the 2.4.x series (eg: The outstanding and very ugly bugs mentioned), it could become necessary for Hardy to upgrade to 2.6 anyway or spend an unnecessary ammount of time fiddling with patches. Changing major versions of included software within one release is, of course, not really Ubuntu's way of doing things. Thus, in the interest of having AbiWord kept reasonably well supported, it would be sane to get the 2.6.x upgrade dealt with for Hardy from the start.