Re: lyx

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:

> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>> lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't
>> been rebuilt with the new versions.  What is the current NMU policy
>> for such packages?
>
> At this point in time?  Do it if you are up to it, and it can even be 0-day
> if you're sure you did it right.  
>
> From memory, lyx is a major mess that FTBFS with gcc4 in very horripilant
> ways, uses yada, and is otherwise NMU-unfriendly IMHO.  But it has been some
> time since I tried to build it.

Blech.  The current team hasn't responded to my emails, but my
complaint is that it has bugs marked "pending upload" for nearly two
weeks now.