On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> wrote: >> yes this was the idea. otherwise i dont believe we can't do much about the >> whole thing except extremistic "solutions" like doing ppas and ask ubuntu > >> devs to stop producing lyx binaries. >> > Something that they would probably deny. In any case, even if we > manage to get proper binaries into the Ubuntu cycle, it is still > worthy to have a PPA available for compatibility and bleeding-edge > code. > Liviu
We could detect the Ubuntu build environment and break. I don't recall what the recommended way of detecting an Ubuntu build environment, but we could e.g. set configure to refuse to build if build-type!=rel and PREFIX=/usr, perhaps giving a message like: "This is a prerelease of LyX, for testing purposes only. The document format used by this pre-release is not stable and probably won't be fully compatible with any stable release. Please do not package this into a stable distribution, instead package the previous stable version. Aborting now." -- John C. McCabe-Dansted
