Re: lilypond 2.16.2 soon in Debian?

[Don Armstrong]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, Federico Bruni wrote:
> The next Debian stable, which is going to be released in a few days,
> will have 2.14 again. Hopefully 2.16 will be added to backports in
> the next future. But it's in experimental since september:
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lilypond.html
> 
> I wonder what it's stopping from being included in testing and if we
> can help somehow. The Debian freeze should end soon, I think. The
> current bugs are here:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=lilypond;dist=unstable

It will be uploaded to unstable once the current testing releases
(wheezy). Then it will transition to the new testing (jessie), and
soon after that I'll make an upload to backports.

Because 2.16 released well after the freeze of wheezy, it won't be
included in the release.
 
> Anyway, what about these bugs?

Free free to e-mail them and/or close them with specific examples.

> #153782 is the famous grace note synchronization problem. Shouldn't this be
> closed? Or it's kept to prevent (hopefully) new bug submissions?
>
> #694067 seems closed as well

This just affects lilypond; the actual bug is in ghostscript.


Don Armstrong

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