Re: Guile 1.8 in Ubuntu 17.04

[Antonio Ospite]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 09:59:54 +0100
Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
 
> Am 10.03.2017 um 09:51 schrieb David Kastrup:
> > Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >> Just wanted to add to the list that I see that the upcoming Ubuntu
> >> 17.04 will not have Guile 1.8 anymore.
> > Then it either will not have LilyPond anymore, have LilyPond with a
> > private compilation of Guile-1.8 included (unlikely since mostly
> > pointless), or have an utterly unusable version of LilyPond that will
> > give us a bad rap.
> 
> Hm, then this is actually strange:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/lilypond
> 
> Doesn't state Guile as a dependeny at all ...
>

Debian unstable has a lilypond package which uses a private copy of
guile-1.8, check the changelog (2.18.2-5 and following):
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/l/lilypond/lilypond_2.18.2-7_changelog

That's what the ubuntu package is based on.

> > I don't think there are other options at the moment.
> >
> > Note that we don't actually need a guile-1.8 package (with command line
> > executable) to run LilyPond, but libguile-1.8 for running and
> > guile-1.8-dev for compiling are likely necessary.
> 
> Yes, but of course *all* Guile-related packages 1.8 will be thrown out.
> 
> In my Debian testing installation `sudo apt install lilypond` also quits
> with "no installation candidate" :-(
>

Not sure why the package from Debian unstable didn't make it into
testing tho, maybe the problem was sorted out too late to have the
package in the next debian stable release.

It'll probably be in stretch-backports at some point.

Ciao,
   Antonio

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