Comment 6 for bug 137934

As the upstream developer for the software being discussed, let me say that I'm completely astonished to hear that Gutsy is supposed to be in upstream version freeze.

Gutsy seems to include unstable versions of various libraries (chiefly, GTK+ 2.11), as well as recent releases of utilities whose behavior is not backwards compatible with the "standard" versions (e.g., pdftoppm). This exposes a very large number of problems in existing software, which often requires significant upstream fixes -- at the last minute, because until a few weeks ago GTK+ 2.11 had virtually no user base.

Now, I don't actually care which version of Xournal makes it into Gutsy, since I'm a Fedora user, but my feeling is that Gutsy is still pretty much broken at this point. And I'd like to mention that more than half of the time I can spare to spend on development these days is currently spent on diagnosing and working around oddities in the unstable or even undocumented versions of libraries and base packages in Gutsy.

Anyway, whatever.