Re: The catastrophe has arrived.

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 24/10/13 17:24, David Kastrup wrote:
> But they take the source package and compile themselves.

I think it likely that's an automated process.

> Debian has already taken a fixed Metapost long ago, but Ubuntu has not
> updated the TeXlive binaries in spite of me reporting the problem.

When did Debian get the fix?  The Debian import freeze for 13.10 was July 25th:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/ReleaseSchedule

> Well, they upgraded to latest stable alright this time, and the
> packaging looks pretty convincing.  But whether or not they upgraded
> LilyPond would have made no difference to the situation with the broken
> fonts: it would have just been the same if they had compiled an older
> version of LilyPond with that version of Metapost.

Yup.  It looks like the development version of Ubuntu has landed the updated 
texlive-bin packages:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/2013.20130729.30972-2

... so maybe it can be backported.  I'll look into who might be able to help 
with this.