[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#780501: lyx: Initial upcoming 'splash' document in most languages not easily compilable

[Alek]

Package: lyx
Version: 2.1.3-1
Severity: important


LyX can in some cases not generate the "Introduction" document shown on
first start, if the user has the 'wrong' language environment set up on
the system. This could easily lead to users abandoning LyX as unusable.
This is caused by babel, as the texlive-lang-* package for the users
language environment is not always installed by default when installing
LyX. On my system this was the case with the german language
environment (only configured locale: de_DE.UTF-8)


Following try showed up the (here) other problematic languages:

$ cd /usr/share/lyx/examples
$ for d in [a-z][a-z]; do LANG=$d lyx --export pdf2 $d/splash.lyx &>
$d.log; done $ grep "exit code 1" *.log | cut -d ":" -f 1
ca.log
cs.log
da.log
el.log
es.log
eu.log
fa.log
fr.log
gl.log
he.log
hu.log
id.log
it.log
('ja' did also not compile but grep failed to get the japanese error
message) ko.log
nl.log
pl.log
pt.log
ro.log
ru.log
sk.log
sl.log
sr.log
sv.log
uk.log


LyX should maybe – if possible – (at least) recommend some
texlive-lang-* package for the user's locale, so that the first LyX
document the users see after installation is at least compilable.
(After having installed 'texlive-lang-german' the problem has been
fixed here.)

This bug is also related to the second part of bug #758875 ("A few bugs
from the very first usage in Italian"
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758875), as I noticed
later.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500,
'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500,
'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500,
'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lyx depends on:
ii  libboost-regex1.55.0    1.55.0+dfsg-3
ii  libboost-signals1.55.0  1.55.0+dfsg-3
ii  libc6                   2.19-17
ii  libenchant1c2a          1.6.0-10.1
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.9.2-10
ii  libmagic1               1:5.22+15-2
ii  libmythes-1.2-0         2:1.2.4-1
ii  libqtcore4              4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3
ii  libqtgui4               4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3
ii  libstdc++6              4.9.2-10
ii  lyx-common              2.1.3-1
ii  xdg-utils               1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.4
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages lyx recommends:
ii  atril [pdf-viewer]           1.8.1+dfsg1-4
ii  dvipng                       1.14-2+b1
ii  elyxer                       1.2.5-1
ii  fonts-lyx                    2.1.3-1
ii  ghostscript                  9.06~dfsg-2
ii  imagemagick                  8:6.8.9.9-5
ii  poppler-utils                0.26.5-2
ii  preview-latex-style          11.88-1.1
ii  psutils                      1.17.dfsg-2
ii  texlive-fonts-recommended    2014.20141024-2
ii  texlive-generic-extra        2014.20141024-1
ii  texlive-generic-recommended  2014.20141024-2
ii  texlive-latex-extra          2014.20141024-1
ii  texlive-latex-recommended    2014.20141024-2
ii  texlive-science              2014.20141024-1

Versions of packages lyx suggests:
pn  chktex                                    <none>
pn  etoolbox                                  <none>
pn  gnuhtml2latex                             <none>
pn  groff                                     <none>
pn  latex2rtf                                 <none>
pn  librsvg2-bin | inkscape                   <none>
pn  libtiff-tools                             <none>
pn  linuxdoc-tools                            <none>
pn  lyx-dbg                                   <none>
pn  noweb                                     <none>
pn  rcs                                       <none>
pn  sgmltools-lite                            <none>
ii  texlive-latex-recommended [latex-xcolor]  2014.20141024-2
pn  texlive-xetex                             <none>
pn  writer2latex                              <none>
pn  wv                                        <none>

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