[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#831843: severity downgrade and LyX 2.2.2 uploaded

[Sven Hoexter]

severity 831843 normal
thanks

Hi Martin,
I'm sorry for the long delay in any answer to this bugreport
but the Debian LyX package is barely maintained at the moment.

I understand your frustration and for your usecase LyX might
be broken which is a grave issue, but I think LyX in general
still works fine so I'm now downgrading the bug to make
it none release critical.

>From my point of view it would be easier to maybe give you
hints on how to move on with your setup if you contact the
LyX developers either via their own mailinglist or via
their bugtracking system. That could avoid a lot of back and
forth. For example I would like to see your layouts to understand
why and where it breaks.

http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists
https://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome

I can still forward your issue if you absolutely would like to
avoid doing that on your own, but that's usually very time
consuming for all involved parties with me acting as the human
proxy.


Beside of that it's a common issue that LyX format changes are
not backwards compatible. Usually the lyx2lyx tool is able to
handle a conversion in both directions. For example from the
last 2.1.x release to 2.2.0 and back. But I guess the lyx2lyx
in Debian/stable as shipped with 2.1.2 is too old to do that.
So if you maybe build the 2.1.5 release it might be able to
read the 2.2.0 imported document.
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/2.1.x/lyx-2.1.5.tar.xz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/2.1.x/lyx-2.1.5.tar.xz.sig

But to be honest I've moved out of the LyX community 6 years
ago, so my advise might be outdated.


Beside of that we've now uploaded LyX 2.2.2, maybe that fixed
one of your issues, though the chance might be slim if you
did not report the issue upstream.

Regards,
Sven