[Pkg-lyx-devel] half-backed 2.1.2 upload

[Georg Baum]

Am Montag, 13. Oktober 2014 schrieb Nikos Andrikos:
> Hi,
> 
> I have started doing some work on the package but I have a couple of
> questions:
> 
> a) What is the copyright/license status for the
> lib/fonts/{cm,eu,ms}*10.ttf files?
> For what I understood they are:
>  # Copyright: 1994-1995 Basil K. Malyshev <bakoma at mail.ru>
>  # License: BaKoMa
> But I have also found this in the copyright file:
>  # The PostScript Type 1 implementation of the {Computer Modern
> fonts,AMSFonts} produced by
>  # and previously distributed by Blue Sky Research and Y&Y, Inc. are now
> freely
>  # available for general use. This has been accomplished through the
> cooperation
>  # of a consortium of scientific publishers with Blue Sky Research and
> Y&Y. # Members of this consortium include:
>  #
>  #        Elsevier Science
>  #        IBM Corporation
>  #        Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
>  #        Springer-Verlag
> Any feedback on this?

License details about the different fonts can be read in 
lib/fonts/ReadmeBaKoMa4LyX.txt. I believe that the information from this 
file was already used in the Debian copyright file in earlier versions.

> b) What is the appropriate place to put the lyx.png, lyx.svg and
> lyx.desktop files?
> As it is now, the situation is like this:
> debian/lyx/usr/share/applications/lyx.desktop
> debian/lyx/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/lyx.svg
> debian/lyx-common/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/lyx.png
> 
> In the past, lyx.png used to be like this:
> debian/lyx-common/usr/share/lyx/images/lyx.png
> debian/lyx-common/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/lyx.png ->
> ../../../../ lyx/images/lyx.png
> 
> I believe that at least lyx.svg and lyx.png should be in the same
> package. Also, I'm not really sure if lintian checks the dependencies
> on all cases, but we could try to move all architecture-independent
> files to lyx-common maybe.

I believe all these files should be in lyx-common. Howwever, I have no idea 
if this complies with the applicable policy or not.


Georg