Re: serious dblatex problem

[Werner LEMBERG]

>>> dblatex version 0.3.5 (as used in openSuSE 42.1, for example) is
>>> incompatible with recent TeXLive versions (in particular, the
>>> recent version of `multirow.sty'), cf.
> 
> I did some tests recently - 20 Dec - with an aim to update the GC
> guide as our list of Linux Distributions instructions was getting a
> bit out of date and I did an explicit test with OpenSuSe 42.1 using
> the same instructions as we have in the CG today
> 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor-big-page.html#opensuse
> 
> I did not find any problems apart from the size of the download had
> increased.

Yes, I know that.  However, some people (like me) might prefer to use
the *current* TeXLive version

  https://www.tug.org/texlive/

with updated macro and font packages while still using dblatex from
the user's OS distribution.  *Such* a configuration causes problems.


    Werner