Comment 104 for bug 202174

I'm sorry to say that the conclusion of this saga is that abiword 2.6 will not be included in Ubuntu 8.04.1. There are simply too many changes that have to be made to the rest of the archive to accomodate it, given that this is a package in main, and that would be too disruptive for a stable release update, above and beyond the rule-bending we would be doing to accomodate a major new upstream version.

I would encourage the interested parties to request a backport of abiword to 8.04 by filing a bug against the hardy-backports project.