Urs Liska <[email protected]> writes: > Hi all, > > I'm investigating Debian again, looking for a new system for me. So far > I've done a pretty minimal installation of Debian Buster (current > "Testing"), looked for LilyPond and Guile - and was somewhat surprised. > > Last time I looked I found that the "lilypond" package had been removed > from Debian Stretch (which has become the current stable release in the > meantime), along with the removal of Guile 1.8. > > So I was surprised to see that a lilypond package is again available for > Buster, albeit only 2.18.2. Further investigation turned out that > obviously LilyPond has been reintroduced with Buster, and is also > available in Stretch as a backport (see > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=lilypond&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all) > > Guile 1.8 on the other hand is not available in Stretch nor Buster - but > in Sid (unstable branch), with the label "debports". > > If I'm not mistaken Debian only provides packages that are compiled by > them, so LilyPond can only be included when Guile 1.8 is also present. > So I'm actually wondering how the "lilypond" package could get into > Stretch and Buster. > > Could someone with more knowledge update me on this?
It has its own prepackaged Guile-1.8 shared libraries in a private directory. Its executable has been replaced by a shell script that adds this directory to the loadpath and then calls the real executable. Hats off, I guess. Probably not a perfect fit as a development platform, but at least good for running. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
