On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 05:14:06PM +0000, Guillaume Munch wrote: > Le 13/11/2015 17:01, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : > >On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 04:39:24PM +0000, Guillaume Munch wrote: > >>Le 13/11/2015 16:30, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : > >>>On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 01:52:34PM +0000, Guillaume Munch wrote: > >>>>Le 11/11/2015 00:40, Richard Heck a écrit : > >>>>>commit cc83dfa887ade5ef059d338cbf353d77db926f40 > >>>>>Author: Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> > >>>>>Date: Tue Nov 10 12:39:24 2015 -0500 > >>>>> > >>>>> Fix bug #9554: When we save a file that was not originally in the > >>>>> current > >>>>> LyX format, create a backup of the original file. We put it in the > >>>>> backup > >>>>> directory, if one exists, otherwise in the directory the original > >>>>> file is > >>>>> in. This is the same strategy as for normal backups. Basically, the > >>>>> only > >>>>> diferences are: (i) what name we use and (ii) we do not over-write > >>>>> any > >>>>> backups that may already exist. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>I just found a file "varwidth-floats-side-by-side-499.lyx" at the root > >>>>of my build directory (from where I usually run src/lyx). According to > >>>>what I had understood this should have been in lib/examples/, where the > >>>>original file varwidth-floats-side-by-side.lyx has always been, instead. > >>> > >>>I would have expected the same. > >>> > >>>>My backup dir is set to "". Is there a risk that we are going to pollute > >>>>all the users ~/ dir with alpha? > >>> > >>>We can wait for a reply before releasing alpha. > >>> > >> > >>Not that I incite to delay alpha > > > >I see. I misunderstood then. In that case I will proceed because having > >extra backups floating around is not a horrible bug for an alpha I > >think. > > Given that this can possibly confuse many users (and give bad publicity to > an useful feature), with the alpha tag I was hoping to encourage a quick > reply if possible and some quick fix if trivial. This did not happen in the > very short time frame so now don't hesitate to proceed. > > We could mention it in a "known issues" section of the release notes or of > the wiki, alongside #9362 "Lyx suddenly gets keyboard keys wrong, and > deadlocks".
Good idea. Let's wait a bit longer (I want to send a "am I missing anything obvious" email anyway) and then we will go ahead and mention it as a known issue and go forward. Scott
