Public bug reported:
There are a number of unresolved bugs about lyx (1.6.5) in launchpad.
The opinion of upstream is that the correct solution is to update to the
maintenance release (1.6.10).
It is possible to update to 1.6.10? It appears that LyX 1.6.10 atleast
broadly satisfies the requirements of an SRU.
1) This is a one off request, 1.6.10 is the final 1.6.x release so
terms relating to frequent updates do not apply.
2) Automated Monkeytesting has been used to improve the quality of LyX and
detect regressions, which together with LyX's plentiful ASSERTs has
found to be a good way of finding bugs. Monkeytesting had only just started
when 1.6.5 was released. I can also use the Monkey-testing script to check for
regressions in the built -propsed packages, as I did for Bug #775900.
(As an aside I gave a presentation about Mon-Keytest at linux.conf.au 2011 :)
3) LyX 1.6.10 has been out for months. There are no known regressions.
4) No dependencies need to be added.
5) LyX is an application, not "critical infrastructure", indeed
"apt-rdepends -r lyx" reports no dependencies.
6) Most changes to documentation etc. after 1.5 years of bug fixing,
diff of 1.6.{5,10}/src ~4000 lines
7) The focus of these changes are primarily bug fixes, though e.g a script
has been added that allows LyX 1.6.10 to open the newer LyX 2.x
documents. This is important as it allows LyX 1.6.10 users to
collaborate with users of newer versions of LyX. With respect to
Ubuntu, this will allow LTS and non-LTS (Natty and on) users to
collaborate.
The bugs fixed in this micro-release include, for example, this bug,
which has been causing Ubuntu users much grief, and is a regression
(note that monkeytesting was not used in earlier versions of LyX):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/560715
For a test case see:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/560715/comments/9
This particular bug was fixed in 1.6.6, see:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6522
For more bugs fixed see:
http://www.lyx.org/announce/1_6_6.txt
...
http://www.lyx.org/announce/1_6_10.txt
** Affects: lyx (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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[SRU] Update LyX to final micro-release 1.6.10
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