Re: guile-2.0 and debian

[David Kastrup]

Antonio Ospite <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 08:42:29 +0100
> Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>  
>> Am 07.11.2016 um 17:08 schrieb Federico Bruni:
>> > In case you don't know already, last news about guile2 and debian:
>> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746005#216
>> 
>> Just for the record (although it's probably evident):
>> This doesn't only mean one can't install "lilypond" from Debian testing
>> but it's also not possible to do
>> 
>> # apt-get build-dep lilypond
>> 
>> So is there a way to get LilyPond's build-dependencies on that distro
>> (either a list of dependencies to install manually or by pinning it to
>> an older release?
>>
>
> Hi Urs,
>
> I contacted the debian package maintainers again to see if they can
> apply the changes dev/guile-v2-work and upload a package.

A package based on Guile 2 would deliver an absolutely devastatingly bad
LilyPond experience at the current point of time.  Awfully slow (we are
talking about a factor of 3 or similar) and rather buggy.

-- 
David Kastrup