Re: Guile 1.8 in Ubuntu 17.04

[David Kastrup]

Antonio Ospite <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 09:59:54 +0100
> Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>  
>> Am 10.03.2017 um 09:51 schrieb David Kastrup:
>> > Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
>> >
>> >> Just wanted to add to the list that I see that the upcoming Ubuntu
>> >> 17.04 will not have Guile 1.8 anymore.
>> > Then it either will not have LilyPond anymore, have LilyPond with a
>> > private compilation of Guile-1.8 included (unlikely since mostly
>> > pointless), or have an utterly unusable version of LilyPond that will
>> > give us a bad rap.
>> 
>> Hm, then this is actually strange:
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/lilypond
>> 
>> Doesn't state Guile as a dependeny at all ...
>>
>
> Debian unstable has a lilypond package which uses a private copy of
> guile-1.8, check the changelog (2.18.2-5 and following):
> http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/l/lilypond/lilypond_2.18.2-7_changelog
>
> That's what the ubuntu package is based on.

Since we don't need the command line executable, this is a viable move
(assuming that there are no other Guile-1.8 users, of course.
TeXmacs?).  In particular since the libguile libraries were without
multilib support last time round and probably nobody would have wanted
to bother with that.

-- 
David Kastrup