On Wed, 09 Dec 2015, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 06/05/15 16:41, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > Control: severity -1 important
> > 
> > On Tue, 05 May 2015, Rob Browning wrote:
> >> Don Armstrong <d...@donarmstrong.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> At this juncture, I'm OK with expending the effort myself to keep
> >>> guile-1.8 working with lilypond as the sole reverse dependency if that's
> >>> what is required. [Unfortunately, I don't have enough time or expertise
> >>> to actually solve the issues with the newer versions of guile, though.]
> >>
> >> For the record, I'm fine with letting 1.8 stay for now.  I imagine Don
> >> and I can handle any serious problems, and hopefully we won't need it
> >> too much longer.
> > 
> > Thanks. I'm going to downgrade this for the time being. I'm going to try
> > to keep on top of this as the development of squeeze progresses; feel
> > free to re-ping whenever.
> 
> Squeeze? Did you mean Stretch? :)

Yes, sorry.

> How is this looking? I saw some commits on the upstream git repo
> mentioning guile 2.0. If you're unsure about this, maybe we could have
> the unstable 2.19.x series uploaded to experimental, built against
> guile-2.0, to make some progress, get some feedback, etc?

I haven't re-pinged them recently, but they were making some progress
last time I checked.

Rebuilding for experimental makes some sense to keep on top of this,
though as I remember, it built, but then didn't always work properly.

[I'm running chronically short on time though, so I've sort of just been
letting this sit until a new release comes out.]

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