The catastrophe has arrived.

[David Kastrup]

Ubuntu 13.10 is delivered with LilyPond 2.16.2 built using a Metapost
version of 1.802.  Consequently, all the included fonts look like crap.

<URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3539>

Of course, this was sort of predictable.  Would we have been in time if
we had immediately created a backport of the configure patch and named
the result 2.16.3?

I have no idea.

Can everybody using Ubuntu 13.10 and seeing this problem (a loopy treble
clef and incomplete flags) please mark this issue as affecting him?

<URL:https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lilypond/+bug/1243777>

This can seriously affect LilyPond's reputation.  Anybody putting
together a comparison of various typesetting programs under GNU/Linux
will more likely be using this version than any other.

-- 
David Kastrup