I have just packaged, for personal use, the latest lyx release 1.2.2 on i686 hardware platform and debian/unstable system
There are two versions, depending on the libc6 and xforms: http://linfe.it/OpenLab/DebianPackages/unstable/contrib/lyx_1.2.2-1_i386.deb ( libc6 >= 2.3.1-1 and libforms1 are required ). http://linfe.it/OpenLab/DebianPackages/unstable/contrib/lyx_1.2.2-1_i386-libc6-2.2.2.deb ( libc6 >= 2.2.2-2 and libforms0.89 are required ). These are my attempts to build deb packages; please let me know if you will find it useful. cheers -- Paolo Pumilia