Checking http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/lyx I found that Per Olofson and Sven Hoexter are the original maintainers, and it seems they would not mind somebody new in the team:
"Some fresh blood for the pkg-lyx team would be cool too" (Sven, http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-lyx-devel/2011-July/005174.html ) So there really seems to be a chance here. So the question is: who would be interested in contributing to lyx in ubuntu? Rainer On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:06 PM, John McCabe-Dansted <gma...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> wrote: >> >> yes this was the idea. otherwise i dont believe we can't do much about >> the >> >> whole thing except extremistic "solutions" like doing ppas and ask >> ubuntu >> > >> >> devs to stop producing lyx binaries. >> >> >> > Something that they would probably deny. In any case, even if we >> > manage to get proper binaries into the Ubuntu cycle, it is still >> > worthy to have a PPA available for compatibility and bleeding-edge >> > code. >> > Liviu >> >> We could detect the Ubuntu build environment and break. I don't recall >> what the recommended way of detecting an Ubuntu build environment, but >> we could e.g. set configure to refuse to build if build-type!=rel and >> PREFIX=/usr, perhaps giving a message like: >> >> "This is a prerelease of LyX, for testing purposes only. The document >> format used by this pre-release is not stable and probably won't be >> fully compatible with any stable release. Please do not package this >> into a stable distribution, instead package the previous stable >> version. Aborting now." > > > I would rather inform the user about the ppa and how they can add it to > their system (if ubuntu is happy with that) and also put the info in the > help files - same for other distros, for which there are binaries available > (openSuse now - thanks Cor). > > In addition one could approach ubuntu-tweak to have the ppa included in > their next release. > > >> >> -- >> John C. McCabe-Dansted >> > > > > -- > Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, > UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) > > Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology > Stellenbosch University > South Africa > > Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 > Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 > Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 > > Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 > > email: rai...@krugs.de > > Skype: RMkrug > > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
