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

2014-09-29 Thread Don Armstrong
for another release. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious. -- Fredrick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical

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

2014-09-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, David Kastrup wrote: Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: What is the current status of #1055[1] (support for Guile 2.0 in lilypond)? I'm currently working on it. There is a branch dev/guilev2 with the current work. Current objective is to make it through the test

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

2014-09-21 Thread 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

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

2014-09-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, David Kastrup wrote: Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: 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

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

2014-09-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, David Kastrup wrote: Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: 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

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

2014-09-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, David Kastrup wrote: Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: I'm just trying to keep lilypond in Debian. Yes, that would be very desirable. So it looks like the guile maintainer is going to be willing to ship guile 1.8 if lilypond doesn't support guile 2.0. So keep up

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

2014-09-17 Thread Don Armstrong
, which will likely happen in February at the latest. Thanks in advance. 1: https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1055 -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed

Re: guile-1.8 to be removed from debian unstable before the freeze (5th of November)

2014-05-30 Thread Don Armstrong
. I've requested that texi2html stay around for the time being, but it's likely that this will only be a viable short-term solution. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Q: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million

Re: License of files in Documentation/pictures and ability to distribute them unclear

2014-01-07 Thread Don Armstrong
for me is just the licenses of those files; source I can figure out in most cases. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com [On a trip back from collecting grass seeds in tropical bird stomachs and being thought by the customs agents to be transporting Marijuana.] Anyone

License of files in Documentation/pictures and ability to distribute them unclear

2014-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
#restricted-use 2: http://www.debian.org/logos/openlogo-nd.svg -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk

Re: Fix for segfault in Font_metric::mark_smob (optimization; Debian bug #684817)

2013-01-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012, David Kastrup wrote: Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: The attached patch fixes a segfault in mark_smob where s gets optimized away and garbage collected before m goes out of scope, leading to a segfault. There may be other cases of this bug floating around

Fix for segfault in Font_metric::mark_smob (optimization; Debian bug #684817)

2012-12-28 Thread Don Armstrong
The attached patch fixes a segfault in mark_smob where s gets optimized away and garbage collected before m goes out of scope, leading to a segfault. There may be other cases of this bug floating around, but I didn't look particularly hard for them. Don Armstrong -- I shall require

Re: Outdated help2man; avoiding needing to build help2man.pl

2012-10-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 01 Oct 2012, Pavel Roskin wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:51:53 -0700 Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: While it's correct, you can trivially work around this problem by changing #!@PERL@ -w to #!@PERL@ -w #! perl -w Considering the subsequent discussion, it's

Outdated help2man; avoiding needing to build help2man.pl

2012-09-13 Thread Don Armstrong
for these programs too, but it's at least a start.] Don Armstrong -- Maybe I did steal your heart and I am such a perfect criminal that you never noticed -- a softer world #481 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=481 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu

Some files missing copyright/license headers; would be useful to add as they are seen

2012-09-11 Thread Don Armstrong
. Don Armstrong 1: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ -- The solution to a problem changes the problem. -- Peer's Law http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu ___ lilypond-devel mailing list

Re: [PATCH] Fix redefinition of s in Music_sequence::first_start. (Closes #672087).

2012-05-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 29 May 2012, Colin Campbell wrote: On 12-05-29 06:02 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: The following patch fixes an issue which keeps lilypond from building properly on GCC 4.7. [It's also almost certainly a bug in addition to this.] [...] Don, would you have a look at our outstanding

[PATCH] Fix redefinition of s in Music_sequence::first_start. (Closes #672087).

2012-05-29 Thread Don Armstrong
a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index a4bbb2f..f2cb168 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +lilypond (2.14.2-3) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix redefinition of s in Music_sequence::first_start. (Closes +#672087). + + -- Don Armstrong d...@debian.org Sun, 13

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread Don Armstrong
of funds would be handled by SFC or SPI in an open manner.[3] I believe the overhead for both SPI and SFC are on the order of 5% (though I think SFC has a non-mandatory overhead), with additional overhead for transfer fees. Don Armstrong 1: http://www.spi-inc.org; full disclosure: I'm a Debian

Re: Test failure when built without a controlling tty

2010-03-04 Thread Don Armstrong
. :( Would it be reasonable to have it open /dev/null if /dev/tty isn't a device? [I haven't written much scheme, but assuming that's ok, I can whip it up later.] Don Armstrong -- The trouble with you, Ibid he said, is that you think you're the biggest bloody authority on everything -- Terry Pratchet

Re: Test failure when built without a controlling tty

2010-03-03 Thread Don Armstrong
. :( Would it be reasonable to have it open /dev/null if /dev/tty isn't a device? [I haven't written much scheme, but assuming that's ok, I can whip it up later.] Don Armstrong -- The trouble with you, Ibid he said, is that you think you're the biggest bloody authority on everything -- Terry Pratchet

Re: serious doubts about waf

2009-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
I'm building the packages in Debian.] Don Armstrong -- Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying

Re: Copyright/licensing action plan + a sample [PATCH]

2009-09-21 Thread Don Armstrong
know I personally don't want to maintain guile-1.8, so if at some point it stops being maintained in Debian,[2] someone else will have to step up and maintain it for us to continue distributing lilypond. Don Armstrong 1: This is YA example of why choosing GPLv2 only is a bad idea if all you want

Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian

2009-09-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Joseph Wakeling wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: (There are a significant number of files distributed in lilypond which are under v2 or later, or v3 or later, as well as things like input/mutopia/claop.py, which isn't even Free Software, as it cannot be modified.[2

Re: Overview of copyright issues

2009-09-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Graham Percival wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 03:36:39PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: (There are a significant number of files distributed in lilypond which are under v2 or later, or v3 or later, as well as things like input/mutopia/claop.py, which isn't even Free

Re: Overview of copyright issues

2009-09-09 Thread Don Armstrong
that they should have, which makes this kind of thing very difficult. But by all means, please help work on this. It'll certainly make my life easier when I have to go through and audit the code for inclusion in Debian (which I naïvely assumed had already been done before I took over maintenance.) Don