Hi Bjorn, > Ok...I guess it is possible to climb a learning curve that tangents the > Matterhorn...(?) Thanks for your guidance :-)
Possible, yes, but deeply miserable. This is why I always get into it four or five hours and throw my hands up in disgust. Regarding stuff, here are some things that might be helpful: Take a look at the debian packaging directories I put together at https://code.launchpad.net/~lyx-outline-devel They are: - lyx-stable-debian (for the 2.0 branch) - lyx-debian (for the 2.1 svn) - lyx-outline-debian (for my outline branch) These work (mostly) and allow you to build and package the three different branches. The files of import are control and changelog. These provide for the naming of the packages, updates, and build dependencies. They should help you get the specifics of the build and packaging system in-hand. (With a few modifications, they were just taken from the standard Ubuntu packaging information.) A few other thoughts. Building the packages from the bzr mirrors of SVN via bzr-build-deb is easier than trying to pull a fresh copy from LyX SVN. (Or at least I think so.) > While browsing on launchpad I found some successful and failed build logs > which kinda gives me an idea of what to look for. On > https://launchpad.net/~pkg-lyx-devel the page said that there are no debian > lyx maintainers. Shouldn't 1.6 have a listing? Yes, browsing the logs of failed builds can be extremely helpful. It helped me to figure out some of the early problems. Downloading the source and building locally is also very helpful, especially if you are using a clean environment. There is a good video on building packages with recipes , which may be helpful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bG-SXNX9Ww Again, thanks for tackling this. Cheers, Rob
