[Pkg-lyx-devel] For what do we need 03.latex8_counters.dpatch?

Per Olofsson pelle at debian.org
Sun Jun 25 18:19:18 UTC 2006


Sven Hoexter:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 04:38:11PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 25. Juni 2006 16:01 schrieb Sven Hoexter:
> 
> > > Do you have any idea what to do with this patch?
> > 
> > Drop it. The existing layout file works fine for me. The patch was not the 
> > right fix for the original bug report. The error message does not occur 
> > anymore because the layout mechansim has been made more flexible in 1.4, 
> > and the style does now use the right counter.
> > 
> > Please never ever patch layout files in the debian package, since that 
> > will make documents incompatible to the standard version! If there is a 
> > bug it should be corrected upstream.
> Seems to be a good idea to review ~7 years old patches ;)
> I'm going to remove it at least for the 1.4.2 branch.

Yes, indeed. I've removed it from trunk now also.

-- 
Pelle



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