It would be nice if abiword would obsolete abisuite. Ximian GNOME uses these subpackages with Red Hat Linux does not. I realize upgrading from a system with Ximian GNOME isn't supported, many users will do this, and it should work as well as possible
It won't work anyway (different libraries, ridiculous Epoch settings in their spec files), so there's no point in even trying to support this.