qgis release update request

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

QGIS 1.8.x "Lisboa" packages are available at official UbuntuGIS repository: ppa:ubuntugis/ppa
(see https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive ).
Why these package can't be uploaded into official Ubuntu archive?

QGIS 1.8.0 packages from UbuntuGIS repository (ppa:ubuntugis/ppa) always crashes when navigating through folders in file saving dialog (which appears in several places, for example in Vector->Data management tools->Merge Shapefiles to one), crash error is "qgis crashed with SIGABRT in raise()", I'm attaching /var/crash/_usr_bin_qgis.1000.crash to this bugreport.

My previous post is incorrect - problem is not in QGIS 1.8.0 packages, but in qt-at-spi package 0.2.0+git20120411-0ubuntu1 (from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS), see bug #998012 (librecad, qtiplot (among others) crash with "ASSERT failure in : "Got an update for an invalid inteface. Investigate this.", file atspiadaptor.cpp) and bug #946956 (lyx crashes in open/save file dialog)
QGIS (and other QT applications) crash bugs can be solved by simply removing qt-at-spi package!

The current stable release of QGIS is now the 2.0 branch.

QGIS 2.0.1 is already packaged in Debian (currently is in NEW queue), see:

git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-grass/qgis.git

It would be nice to import QGIS 2.0.1 packages from Debian into Ubuntu ASAP.

This bug was fixed in the package qgis - 2.0.1-1

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qgis (2.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Jürgen E. Fischer ]
  * branch of version 2.0
  * add support for debian jessie and ubuntu saucy

  [ Bas Couwenberg ]
  * New upstream release.
    (closes: #688246, #690884, #713358, #713893, #724873, #734136)
  * Add myself to Uploaders.
  * Merge changes from control.sid.
  * Use minimal dh rules.
  * Update watch file. (closes: #717052)
  * Drop 10_fix_gcc4.7_build.patch, no longer required.
  * Use canonical URLs for Vcs-* fields.
  * Don't run tests during build, requires network.
  * Install SVG icon for QGIS desktop files. (closes: #676562)
  * Use pkgkde-gensymbols & pkgkde-symbolshelper to handle C++ symbols.
  * Split libqgis libraries into separate packages.
  * Remove automatically generated files on clean.
  * Add lintian overrides for no-fortify-functions false positive.
  * Add lintian overrides for binaries-have-file-conflict false positive.
  * Add patch to fix 'another' typo.
  * Add patch to fix 'allows one to' typo.
  * Add Keywords for desktop files.
  * Update copyright for qgis-providers-common resources.
  * Don't install extra license files.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5, changes: minimal dh rules, Vcs-* field
    updates, shared library split and symbols.
  * Add patch to fix FTBFS on armel/armhf. Thanks to Konstantinos Margaritis.
    (closes: #691333)
  * Change priority to optional.
  * Update libgdal-dev build dependency.
  * Add patch to fix building with SIP 4.15.
  * Update Source URL in copyright.
  * Add patches from upstream release-2_0 branch.
  * Add patch to remove Google AdSense from documention.
  * Add patch to explicitly use /usr/bin/python2.7, update X-Python-Version and
    dependencies accordingly.
    (closes: #729495)
  * Add patch to fix a crash when a WMS-C tile matrix set isn't available
    anymore.

 -- Bas Couwenberg <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:28:09 +0100

qgis (1.9.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * new development version 1.9 after branch of 1.8
  * include ows provider
  * include wcs provider
  * symbology-ng-style now in sqlite3
  * include cpt-city files
  * support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS' parallel=n
  * add python-unittest2 build dependency for maverick and squeeze
  * disable PyQgsRectangle test on lucid (depends on unittest2)
  * add python-psycopg2 and python-qscintilla2 dependency to python-qgis
  * add python-matplotlib dependency to python-qgis-common (for sextante)
  * add support for ubuntu quantal and raring
  * remove js files and add libjs-jquery/libjs-underscore dependency
  * add spatialite qt sql driver
  * include topology plugin
  * drop delimited text and diagram overlay plugin (now in core)
  * drop context_help, function_help and qgis_help.db files
  * use dh_sip
  * add build dependency to xfonts (100dpi, 75dpi, scalable) for tests
  * raise Qt dependency to 4.6

 -- Jürgen E. Fischer <email address hidden> Sat, 27 Jul 2013 16:45:43 +0200

qgis (1.8.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * new development version 1.8 after branch
  * include function help in package
  * include heatmap plugin
  * drop extra include path for QtWebkit on oneiric and natty
  *...