Re: Lilypond 2.16 fedora 17

[David Kastrup]

Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> writes:

> Quoting James <address@hidden>:
>
>> 'Any chance 'that the forthcoming' Lilypond 2.16 will be accepted in
>> Fedora 17'
>
> Fedora 17 packages Lilypond 2.15.29 currently.  In my understanding,
> it means that the maintainer believes that a new stable version of
> Lilypond will be released before or shortly after Fedora 17.  I'm sure
> Lilypond 2.16 would be packaged quickly once it's released because,
> the maintainer is betting that it will be.
>
> I tried the version packaged in Fedora 17 on one of the scores and
> found it utterly broken (bogus barchecks everywhere), so I upgraded to
> the git version of Lilypond.

That sounds like imprudent policy.  Packaging an unstable version should
only be done by somebody committed to tracking upstream developments
well enough to quickly replace the version.  2.15.29 is

commit 82e1937780c911be71b439a7d1f2006f058f0490
Author: Graham Percival <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu Feb 9 13:57:59 2012 +0000

    Release: update news.

This is quite more than 2 months old.  Any process that cranks out such
an old development version today is not suited for the updating problems
in relation to development versions.

> But I would gladly use 2.16 at least on some systems once it's
> available in Fedora.

Who wouldn't?

-- 
David Kastrup