Comment 7 for bug 1602145

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Juhani Numminen (jsonic) wrote :

I did some reading on Ubuntu policies, and found couple more things to consider:

- Backporting LyX 2.3.1 requires that 2.3.1 is in the Ubuntu archives, i.e. Ubuntu 18.10.
- Ubuntu 18.10 will be released in about one month, and it is already past feature freeze as well as user interface freeze, so LyX would require a freeze exception.

Based on reading wiki pages, I think the backporting effort requires this:

1. Lyx 2.3.1 is released.
2. Ask Debian maintainer of lyx, Dr. Tobias Quathamer, to package 2.3.1 and upload it to Debian.
3. Request a sync of 2.3.1 from Debian to Ubuntu 18.10.
4. Request a backport of 2.3.1 from Ubuntu 18.10 to 18.04.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseSchedule
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SyncRequestProcess