Comment #4 on issue 2655 by [email protected]: TextSpanner disappears after linebreak
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2655
What's the meaning of "waiting" here ? regardless of what happens on the stable/2.16 branch if we accept that concept of branching in August, we might as well get the fix into git master.
I suggest that this should be Patch-new.
