Re: Status of Guile 2.0 Support (Next Debian release won't ship guile-1.8)

[Don Armstrong]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Don Armstrong wrote:
> OK. I *might* be able to convince the guile maintainer to keep 1.8 just
> for lilypond, but that also might mean that I'll end up having to
> maintain guile 1.8 too.
> 
> Could you point me at a list of guile 2.0 bugs which are affecting
> lilypond? Having that list handy would help me convince the guile
> maintainer (and also Debian's release managers and security) that there
> were valid reasons to keep guile 1.8 for another release of Debian.

Just for the record, the Debian bug for this is
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746005


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