On 12/04/2011 04:21 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: > On 04/12/2011 3:18 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: >> jri...@lyx.org wrote: >>> Author: jrioux >>> Date: Wed Nov 30 00:03:08 2011 >>> New Revision: 40319 >>> URL: http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/40319 >>> >>> Log: >>> Provide our own patched AM_PYTHON_CHECK_VERSION that requires >>> python<3.0 >>> Use the python found by configure to build po files. >>> >>> Modified: >>> lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_2_0_X/ (props changed) >>> lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_2_0_X/config/lyxinclude.m4 >>> lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_2_0_X/po/Makefile.in.in >>> lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_2_0_X/po/Rules-lyx >>> lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_2_0_X/status.20x >> >> plese check that RELEASE-NOTES about python are still correct. >> >> secondly there should be some sentence in 2.0.3 NEWS to inform >> packagers that they need to check their patches for python 2 >> to work. >> >> pavel >> > > For NEWS, how about: > What's new in version 2.0.3? > ---------------------------- > > LyX 2.0.3 still requires a python 2 interpreter, but steps have been > taken to avoid problems on systems where python 3 is the default > python interpreter. A python 2 interpreter is now automatically > detected and used; distro maintainers are encouraged to verify their > patch sets. > > For RELEASE-NOTES, it says: > - LyX needs to be run under Python 2 and will not work properly on > systems where Python 3 is the default binary. See bug #7030 to know > how to fix this properly, since simple sheebang conversion in *.py > files will not be enough. > -- > > This still holds for now, until Enrico's patch is applied to branch. > News basically gets copied from ANNOUNCE, so please feel free to put something like this into that file. I can tweak it, etc, later.
Richard
