On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:28:40PM +0000, Sam Lewis wrote: Hi Sam,
> It's great to to have the 1.6.0~beta4-1 package in "experimental", with > matching > dependencies of "testing". Thank you kindly, maintainer Sven Hoexter, for your > effort! Thanks but I'm not alone. Per also did a lot in the past and is still one of the forces behind the packaging for Debian. From time to time we even have very helpfull support from Georg. :) > Does anyone know whether, RC5 is a candidate for "experimental"? Or how close > is > 1.6.0 to make it into any Debian stream? Well beside travelling my focus during the summer was on helping to release lenny which is in a good shape now but not released and work on my Debian Developer application. So in general it's a "we just need to pick it up" issue. I'll see if I find the time to upgrade the version in our repository to the latest LyX RC and get Per to upload it next week. Sven