Updated LyX Packages for Maverick Meercat

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Benjamin,

Thanks for pointing this out.  I think that you just saved me  great deal of time and work, which makes me very happy ;)

Cheers,

Rob

On Aug 16, 2010, at 2:30 AM, Benjamin Drung wrote:

> Am Montag, den 16.08.2010, 10:03 +0200 schrieb أحمد المحمودي:
>> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 09:50:45PM -0600, Rob Oakes wrote:
>>> On 08/15/2010 09:43 PM, أحمد المحمودي wrote:
>>>> Please base your package on the one in Debian. Actually Ubuntu's diff
>>>> from Debian is very small. It's a pity that this package got missed
>>>> before freeze, hopefully that would be overcome.
>>> I have been in touch with the maintainer from Debian, and he has
>>> kindly given me a copy of everything that he uses to package LyX.
>>> It is good to know that the Ubuntu diff is small.  This makes me
>>> hopeful that there will be few complications.
>>> 
>>> I will let you know after I have built the new packages and filed
>>> the appropriate bugs.
>> 
>> I think that is not needed anymore, please look at 
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/latex-xft-fonts/+bug/618547 
>> for explanation.
>> 
>> So we can just sync Debian's lyx package without any modifications now.
> 
> This was my conclusion after looking at the lyx source. :)
> 
>> Thanks to Iain Lane (Laney) for spotting it !
>> 
>>>> There are several bugs against LyX in Launchpad, it would be great if
>>>> you can identify which bugs are related to the issue you mentioned (or
>>>> that are fixed by new release anyways). I see that LP #588969 is a
>>>> relevant one.
>>> I will do that.  It would also be good to get any unique Launchpad
>>> bugs filed in our own Trac system, and to to identify which are
>>> duplicates.
>> 
>> So now you can just concentrate on filing the FFe, and identify the bugs 
>> fixed by new upstream (please mention those bugs in your FFe report).
> 
> You could use the requestsync script to request a sync and add all
> information required for a FFe.
> 
> -- 
> Benjamin Drung
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