Re: any news on 1.8 for debian?

[John Steele Scott]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:39:42 -0700, Rob Browning wrote:
> The issue is that I was waiting on SLIB.  The current Debian Guile
> (1.6) works fine with the recent versions of SLIB, but SLIB's
> guile.init hasn't been updated for 1.8.  I've been talking with Aubrey
> Jaffer about it, but we haven't come to any conclusion yet.  We've
> been talking about changing the way SLIB is handled within Guile.
> 
> If I don't come up with a solution soon, I can just upload 1.8
> packages without SLIB support.

Perhaps you could upload it and hold it in unstable until you sort out the
SLIB issue? I'd like to install it on my Ubuntu system, but have been
waiting for a Debian source package to build from.

cheers,

John