LyX cannot read 1.6.x files

[Gioele Barabucci]

LyX cannot read 1.6.x files. Please update Lyx in Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 8.10 to 1.5.7 or cherry-pick specific changes, specifically the ability to read 1.6.x files: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.5.x/patch-1.5.7.gz (LyX 1.5.7 patch)

Lyx 1.5.7 is a stable release with one major fix: reads files created by Lyx 1.6.x. Additionally, 1.5.7 fixes these bugs: http://www.lyx.org/announce/1_5_7.txt

LyX 1.6.1-1 is included in the Jaunty repository.

[Dara Adib (daradib)]

Marking as invalid.

LyX 1.6.1-1 is currently included in Ubuntu Jaunty, and Bug 297941 is a backport request to Ubuntu 8.10 and 8.04 (currently in progress).

[Gioele Barabucci (gioele)]

Bug #297941 is a completely different request: it requests a new version of Lyx 1.6.1 to be included in the backports.

I'm asking to update the current 1.5.x series package to 1.5.7 from 1.5.6. It is a stable bug-fix-only release that should be included in the normal updates not in the backports repository.

Please change the status of this bug report.

[Dara Adib (daradib)]

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

The only way to get LyX 1.5.7 in -updates is through the stable release updates[1] process, which is targeted towards fixing only very high-impact bugs (mainly severe regressions and direct loss of data).

I don't find it likely that this bug will qualify for SRU.

The most important bug fixed by LyX 1.5.7 is the (in)ability to read LyX 1.6 files, which is actually more of a feature than a severe regression or a direct loss of data. It's also not a simple patch either; LyX 1.5.7 would require packaging, as LyX 1.5.7 has never been packaged in development releases of Ubuntu or Debian. These packages in turn cannot be tested in development releases of Ubuntu or Debian that use the LyX 1.6.x series.

Nevertheless, I have changed the status of this bug to incomplete. If you feel that this bug qualifies for SRU, please feel free to follow the SRU procedure documented at the wiki page and change the bug status to new.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

[Gioele Barabucci (gioele)]

From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

«Bugs which do not fit under above categories, but (1) have an obviously safe patch and (2) affect an application rather than critical infrastructure packages (like X.org or the kernel).»

I think that we could at least cherry-pick the patch that enables 1.5.x to read 1.6.0 files + lyx_1_6.py. Anyway, many of the other changes look safe to me (most of them being 4 to 10 lines long).

Have a look at http://repo.or.cz/w/lyx.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/BRANCH_1_5_X and ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.5.x/patch-1.5.7.gz

[Gioele Barabucci (gioele)]

As suggested by Dara Adib

[Dara Adib (daradib)]

I'm assuming you want to SRU this bug, so I nominated it for Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 8.10.

However, please take a look at the SRU procedure: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure