On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:24:06AM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: > Sven Hoexter wrote:
Hello Georg, Wow that's a fast reply :) > > I contacted Erinn Clark yesterday (she's listed in the pkg-lyx[1] project > > on alioth.debian.org) and she told me that the package is in an orphaned > > state but just not marked beeing O. The other former maintainer, Rob Weir, > > is MIA. > > What is MIA? Missing in action, he's not reachable and does not fix bugs. > > - The /debian/ subdir from 1.3.6 seems to be in a good shape and is using > > dpatch so > > I will stay with it. There are some fix me notes in the rules file but > > that should not matter for the moment. > > The 1.3.6 debian subdir needs some more fixes for 1.4.x. I did those, and > you can see the result at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnDebian#toc6. Note > that small tweaks are needed for 1.4.2svn, I can provide an update if > needed. Ah ok. How far is 1.4.2 from beeing released? I would like to stay with the final releases. > > - I've read something about a gtk frontend and found it in the Lyx source > > but there is > > no configure option for it and it's not mentioned in the README/INSTALL > > files. What's that? How can we use it? Is it alpha stuff you should not > > use? Would be cool if someone could enlight me what's that all about. > > It is not documented because it is experimental and not ready for use. Ok so I count that as not relevant for the moment so that the debian package will stay with the qt and xforms frontend. Or is xforms finaly deprecated now? > > - Is there a DD out in the wild internet willing to sponsor a new Lyx > > package? > > That is the biggest problem. I suggest you find somebody who is willing to > do that before doing anything else, because we have enough unofficial > packages already. Well my intention is definetly not to prepare another package which will finaly end in /dev/null. I'm quite optimistic to find someone who is willing to sponsor it. > Maybe it would help if Erinn Clark orphaned the package > officially. To my experience not realy. Cheers, Sven -- If you won't forgive me the rest of my life Let me apologize while I'm still alive I know it's time to face all of my past mistakes [Less than Jake - Rest Of My Life]
