Rob Browning, the guile maintainer, has been doing a lot of hard work trying to get guile-1.8 into Debian. Turns out there were some critical timing bugs affecting the operation of fork in the guile threading implementation, bugs which are too intractible to solve immediately.
Rob has uploaded guile-1.8 with the threading option turned off, which seems to work fine, and since lilypond doesn't rely on threads in guile, should enable the long-awaited upload of lilypond 2.8. It is my hope that #359855 will not exist in the new lilypond. However, this is just a hope. If ghostscript continues to have such a bug, then solving it will become of critical priority for getting lilypond into the release. So right now, I'm waiting for ftpmaster to approve the new guile-1.8 packages, and then I can build and upload lilypond 2.8 without delay. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
