Re: Homebrew Warning when upgrading to 2.5 on Mac

[.. switching from users to dev list ..]

On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 03:33:03PM +0100, Stephan Witt wrote:
> Am 03.03.2026 um 15:05 schrieb Pavel Sanda <[email protected]>:
> > On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 01:29:27PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes via lyx-users wrote:
> >> Le 03/03/2026 ?? 13:06, Pavel Sanda via lyx-users a écrit :
> >>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 06:16:33PM +0200, Eberhard W Lisse via lyx-users wrote:
> >>>> I get this warning when installing (upgrading) LyX via Homebrew:
> >>>> 
> >>>>     Warning: lyx has been deprecated because it does not pass the macOS
> >>>>     Gatekeeper check! It will be disabled on 2026-09-01.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Not that it bothers me, nor that I even understand this, but I thought I
> >>>> report it. M4 MacBookAir 26.3.
> >>> 
> >>> Real problem which we did not agree how to fix yet.
> >>> 
> >>> IIRC the solutions seen:
> >>> 1) someone creates homebrew formula to build mac binaries from source.
> >>> 2) pay ransom to Apple to "certify" our package.
> >>> 3) ask some other dev from TeX-osphere with existing account to sign for us.
> >>> 
> >>> Option 2 is probably easiset and most generic but also most morally doubtful.
> >> 
> >> And option 1 is the "correct" solution, isn't it?
> > 
> > Well, it would mean that anyone who wants lyx on mac has to install homebrew first.
> > Some people might not like to install whole package manager just to get lyx.
> > 
> > The upside might be that at the end Stephan does not need to prepare binaries
> > anymore and the whole build process becomes automatized and transparent 
> > (little bit like in gentoo linux, where you prepare only build scripts and not
> > binary packages, debian is slowly getting there via git/salsa based pipeline).
> > 
> > How difficult is to built this on mac with all dependencies in place
> > only Stephan knows (e.g. do we need/insert specific libraries etc like for
> > windows?). 
> > 
> > The transparency and decreasing the bus factor is probably what I like most on
> > the solution 1.
> 
> But there is nothing wrong with having both homebrew formula and manual releases.
> 
> On one of my systems I have homebrew installed. But I never tried to understand the concepts and details.

ATM I have hard time to even gauge how difficult the homebrew way would
be. Would you have time/be willing to document the current build/release
procedure in e.g. INSTALL.MacOSX?

I had a sense that Koji is willing to interface between us and homebrew
framework. If your workflow is documented the homebrew formula might
become straightforward (or not;).

Pavel
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