[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#529406: Bug#529406: after upgrade from etch, lyx offers no file export methods

[Per Olofsson]

Hej Sergio,

Sergio Gelato wrote:
> Package: lyx
> Version: 1.5.5-1
> 
> To reproduce:
> 1) run lyx 1.4.3-3 on a Debian etch system, generating a fresh ~/.lyx/
>    directory.
> 2) upgrade to lenny
> 3) run lyx again, with the same ~/.lyx/ configuration directory.
> 4) Look at File -> Export (possibly after opening a file). The only
>    choice is Custom, and if one chooses that one is presented with a
>    list of export formats which one can select, but no matter what I
>    do the "OK" and "Apply" buttons remain greyed out; only the "Close"
>    or "Cancel" button is functional.
> 
> By contrast, the following works:
> 1) remove the old ~/.lyx/ directory from version 1.4.3-3.
> 2) run lyx 1.5.5-1
> 3) File -> Export shows a fully-populated menu with functional entries.

Have you tried Tools -> Reconfigure?

This should happen automatically, though.

> I couldn't find the need to regenerate the LyX configuration after an
> upgrade from 1.4.x documented in any of the following places:
> -- the release notes for Debian 5.0;
> -- the various files in /usr/share/doc/lyx/.

No, because it should happen automatically.

-- 
Pelle