Re: download page: small corrections on Debian package versions

[Heikki Junes]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> Mark Van den Borre writes:
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> > * Lilypond 2.4.5 is in Debian etch, the current testing, and in Debian
> > sid.
> > * Lilypond 2.2.6 ships with Debian sarge, but it's not in Debian sid
> > anymore.
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> Thanks, I fixed these.
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> > P.S. Is anyone working on 2.5/2.6 .debs for Debian sid/etch?
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> The maintainer has filed a wishlist bug, but there is a gs dependency
> problem.
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> Jan.
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Version 8.14 is required by LilyPond, while version 8.15 is already in 
unstable (alias sid). Seems like this dependency is going to be resolved 
soon, see http://www.debian.org/devel/testing on accepting packages from 
sid to etch.

$ apt-cache policy gs-gpl
gs-gpl:
Installed: 8.15-1
Candidate: 8.15-1
Version Table:
*** 8.15-1 0
500 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org unstable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
8.01-5 0
990 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/main Packages
500 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/main Packages


I found an another, a build dependency problem between debian and LilyPond.
Using ./autogen.sh for Lilypond resulted in:

ERROR: Please install required programs: /usr/bin/fontforge >= 20050624 
(installed: 20050502)

This version is not available in debian,
$ apt-cache policy fontforge
fontforge:
Installed: 0.0.20050502-1
Candidate: 0.0.20050502-1
Version Table:
*** 0.0.20050502-1 0
500 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/main Packages
500 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org unstable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.0.20041218-0.1 0
990 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/main Packages

I tried to file an `important` bug on this to debian (shown below).

- Heikki


Package: fontforge
Version: 0.0.20050502-1
Severity: important

When I try to compile latest stable LilyPond (to be included in 
sid/etch, http://lilypond.org/download/v2.6/lilypond-2.6.1.tar.gz) from 
source, command './autogen.sh' results in an error:

ERROR: Please install required programs: /usr/bin/fontforge >= 20050624 
(installed: 20050502)

I suggest that a newer version fontforge, version 20050624 or later, 
would be packed in sid/etch.

I am using Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge), kernel 2.6.11-1-686, and gcc 
3.3.5.