[Pkg-lyx-devel] Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

[Sven Hoexter]

Hello,
I'd like to see the Debian package in the archive back in sync with the
upstream version.
I contacted Erinn Clark yesterday (she's listed in the pkg-lyx[1] project on
alioth.debian.org) and she told me that the package is in an orphaned state
but just not marked beeing O. The other former maintainer, Rob Weir, is MIA.

So I'm willing to take it over BUT my experience with Debian packaging is
still quite low and limited to small packages[2]. Additional I've not followed
the Lyx development for the last ~2 years. So any help would be highly appreciated.
After a first look around I found that several people are hacking their own
Debian packages so there must be some demand for new packages and people willing to
do some work. Please raise your hand now guys!

I would like to see the people interessted joining the pkg-lyx-devel mailinglist
provided via alioth. If you don't like to join the mailinglist but like to contact
me please do so. You can find information on how to contact me via IRC and several
IM networks here [3].

Ok now let's go over to some more technical things :)
ATM I'm looking for the lost ends while actualy using Lyx to get some university
stuff done.
Things I found out so far:

- Lyx 1.4 compiles with the /debian/ dir from the 1.3.6 packages in the archive
  with only minor changes. One is about to change a Build-Dep from libaiksaurus-dev to
  libaiksaurus-1.2-dev and the other one was the 02. patch not to apply. Then it takes
  a lot of time to compile on my little bit aged Athlon 1,4Ghz *sigh* but in the end I
  got a working package for i386 *juhu*.

- The /debian/ subdir from 1.3.6 seems to be in a good shape and is using dpatch so
  I will stay with it. There are some fix me notes in the rules file but that should not
  matter for the moment.

- There is a patch for hppa in the patchlist from an NMU - would be nice to find out
  to which upstream this patch belongs.

- There is a huge amount of old bugs in the Debian BTS which need to be checked.

- I've read something about a gtk frontend and found it in the Lyx source but there is
  no configure option for it and it's not mentioned in the README/INSTALL files. What's
  that? How can we use it? Is it alpha stuff you should not use? Would be cool if someone
  could enlight me what's that all about.


Things I haven't found out yet:

- Is the lyx package maintained in a VCS? I'd like to go with subversion but I've to admit
  that I haven't had the time lately to find out how svn-buildpackage should be used. Hints
  for docs I should read are welcome :).

- Is there a DD out in the wild internet willing to sponsor a new Lyx package?


So I'm now getting back to my university stuff for a few hours and wait for some
feedback.

Cheers,
Sven

[1] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-lyx/
[2] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=sven@timegate.de
[3] http://sven.stormbind.net
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