[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#452888: lyx-qt obsolete?

[Ross Boylan]

Package: lyx
Version: 1.5.2-1
Severity: minor

I think the main lyx package now incorporates what used to be in
lyx-qt, and the latter is obsolete.  The latest upgrade deleted
lyx-qt; there is no version of it in unstable; and
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lyx.html does not list it.  Upstream
changelog seems to show switch to Qt as the primary interface.  But
there is no clear indication of this in the Debian NEWS or changelog.

If lyx-qt is supposed to be around, something is wrong--probably more
than a minor issue.

Otherwise, it would be helpful to document the death of lyx-qt
explicitly, to save others from wondering what's going on.   A
changlog entry seems appropriate, and probably an entry in
NEWS.Debian.

Thanks.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lyx depends on:
ii  libaiksaurus-1.2-0c2 1.2.1+dev-0.12-4+b1 an English-language thesaurus (dev
ii  libaspell15          0.60.5-1            GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime l
ii  libboost-filesystem1 1.34.1-2            filesystem operations (portable pa
ii  libboost-regex1.34.1 1.34.1-2            regular expression library for C++
ii  libboost-signals1.34 1.34.1-2            managed signals and slots library 
ii  libc6                2.6.1-1+b1          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1              1:4.2.2-3           GCC support library
ii  libqt4-core          4.3.2-1             Qt 4 core non-GUI functionality ru
ii  libqt4-gui           4.3.2-1             Qt 4 core GUI functionality runtim
ii  libstdc++6           4.2.2-3             The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6             2:1.0.3-7           X11 client-side library
ii  lyx-common           1.5.2-1             Architecture-independent files for
ii  mime-support         3.39-1              MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  xdg-utils            1.0.1-2             Desktop integration utilities from
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-6    compression library - runtime

Versions of packages lyx recommends:
ii  dvipng                 1.9-5             convert DVI files to PNG graphics
ii  gs-esp [postscript-vie 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1   The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  gs-gpl [postscript-vie 8.56.dfsg.1-1.1   The GPL Ghostscript PostScript int
ii  gv [pdf-viewer]        1:3.6.3dfsg-5     PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii  imagemagick            7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-2 Image manipulation programs
ii  kghostview [pdf-viewer 4:3.5.7-4+lenny1  PostScript viewer for KDE
ii  kpdf [pdf-viewer]      4:3.5.7-4+lenny1  PDF viewer for KDE
ii  latex-xft-fonts        0.1-7             Xft-compatible versions of some La
ii  preview-latex-style    11.83-7           LaTeX style files for editor embed
ii  psutils                1.17-24           A collection of PostScript documen
ii  texlive-fonts-recommen 2007-12           TeX Live: Recommended fonts
ii  texlive-latex-recommen 2007-12           TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packag
ii  xpdf-reader [pdf-viewe 3.02-1.3          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  xpdf-utils [pdf-viewer 3.02-1.3          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui

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