Conversion error for Help files

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 6/5/20 5:43 AM, José Abílio Matos wrote:
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> On Friday, 5 June 2020 05.06.19 WEST Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
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> > Please ignore the date in Help> About LyX.... That will be fixed.
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> Honestly soon no one will care about the date. :-)
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> As long as it is in the past.
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> > Speaking of which, José, you might want to rebuild....
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> No I do not, I am dragging my feet on this. :-)
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> The reason is the numbering scheme that forces me to change the spec
> file in several places for a one off change.
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> It is easier for me to take a diff between the source that we have now
> and original source code and apply that patch because then I only need
> to change one line in the spec file (the line where I declare the patch).
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> Also every time that I update the submission the karma is reset. That
> is relevant because the package goes from updates-testing to updates
> based on two criteria (whatever comes first):
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> * if the karma is above some given threshold (3 is the default that I
> did not change for this update);
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> * after 7 days in updates-testing.
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> If I do any update both counters reset, actually the dates only
> applies after the package is pushed to testing. This process happens
> more or less daily but it adds another day to have the package in updates.
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> Of course that we can speed up the process if I ask fedora users, in
> our users' list, to test the package and give karma to the package we
> can reduce this process to two days. Actually we can do even better
> because the update is available from the bodhi site even before being
> pushed to the updates-testing repository, if enough users give
> positive feedback (the 3 karma up votes that I referred above) the
> package since it satisfies the first criteria will be pushed directly
> to the updates repository and this being available to all users that
> update.
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> The reason why I am writing this message is to make explicit my
> reasoning. Usually I build the packages that you make available but I
> expect for the formal announce before submitting the packages to the
> update process.
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> For those that do not know Fedora, that in this regards works more or
> less like the other Linux distributions, building and making the
> package available as an update are separate processes.
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> I can build a package and not to submit it for update. Of course that
> if I want to submit an update I need a build. :-)
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> In Fedora (for any release) there are three repositories for packages:
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> * fedora (the set of packages that were in stable repository when the
> distribution was declared ready for release);
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> * updates (all the stable packages go there);
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> * updates-testing (staging repository where packages stay before going
> to updates).
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> The first two repositories are set by default and the last is turned
> off by default.
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> The difference between Linux distribution is about the updates policy.
> In Fedora we consider to update lyx when 2.4 is released for the
> currently supported Fedora releases.
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> > Riki
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> My point is that if you wish I can coordinate more closely with you
> the update process. With my Fedora hat on (pun intended) that is my
> reaction to all upstream projects.
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Mostly I just wanted to make sure you knew about the re-packaging. It's
such a trivial change that I wasn't sure I wanted to do it myself....

Riki

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