Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 06:45:38PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > after a fresh update each time, dselect is adamant that lyx is current at > > version 1.1.4-3 which is older than the current stable version... > > > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/lyx.htm advertises version 1.1.4-7 > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/lyx.htm advertises 1.1.6fix3-1 > > > > I'm confused! > > Might this have something to do with either my architecture (powerpc) > > or my isp? > > At the moment, packages.debian.org quotes versions for i386 only. Here's > some more accurate information: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ madison lyx > lyx | 1.1.4-3 | stable | powerpc > lyx | 1.1.4-7 | stable | source, alpha, i386, m68k
> So lyx is indeed out of date on powerpc, probably because it's in the > contrib section and the autobuilders don't always keep religiously up to > date with that. As a maintainer of several contrib packages that depend on XForms, I can say that autobuilders _don't_ process contrib at all. I've had to ask admins to temporarily install libforms-dev so that I could build the packages on non-i386 arches; some of them don't want to. I've had to file many bugs against ftp.debian.org to get old versions of non-i386 binary packages deleted from the archive to let packages migrate to testing. It a big pain. Maintaining a contrib package is more work than maintaining a non-free one! I don't recommend it. Hopefully, this will end soon. XForms is _supposed_ to become free very soon. Then lyx will be in main too, and powerpc will be uptodate. Peter