Am 11.09.2017 um 10:41 schrieb David Kastrup: > 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 Its executable has been replaced by a shell script that adds 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. >
Yes, indeed better than nothing (sudo apt install lilypond => "package lilypond has no release candidate"). OTOH it may take some pressure off the need for a "proper" solution ... Hm, will I be able to get a system where I can build LilyPond again? I'm really not fluent enough with package management, but could I install Guile 1.8 from sid and use that for setting up my LilyPond environment? I really don't want to use an extra virtual machine just for that. (I don't need step-by-step instructions here, just a confirmation if it is possible (and maybe a general pointer on how to proceed) Urs _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
