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

2014-09-29 Thread Don Armstrong
quiring guile 1.8, it'll almost definitely be supported 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 flowchar

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 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.

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 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

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 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

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

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 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 t

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, in

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

2014-05-30 Thread Don Armstrong
This (I believe) is http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1000. 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

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

2014-01-07 Thread Don Armstrong
he most important thing 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 trans

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

2014-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
ex.en.html#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 ha

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 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 o

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 th

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 wrote: > > While it's correct, you can trivially work around this problem by > > changing > > > > #!@PERL@ -w > > > > to > > > >

Outdated help2man; avoiding needing to "build" help2man.pl

2012-09-13 Thread Don Armstrong
to have real manpages 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

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

2012-09-11 Thread Don Armstrong
ly my understanding matches all of yours. 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 __

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,

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

2012-05-29 Thread Don Armstrong
git 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 Sun, 13 May 2012

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread Don Armstrong
ke and disbursement 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 discl

Re: Test failure when built without a controlling tty

2010-03-04 Thread Don Armstrong
th waiting for a fix. :( 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'r

Re: Test failure when built without a controlling tty

2010-03-03 Thread Don Armstrong
th waiting for a fix. :( 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'r

Test failure when built without a controlling tty

2010-03-02 Thread Don Armstrong
Complete logs: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?suite=unstable&p=lilypond Debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572290 Presumably the tests should just not output logs if they don't have a controlling tty? Don Armstrong -- One day I put instant coff

Re: serious doubts about waf

2009-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
m doing insane things when 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 a

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

2009-09-21 Thread Don Armstrong
ontributors.[1] As far as distributions go, I 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

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

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

Re: Overview of copyright issues

2009-09-09 Thread Don Armstrong
inclusion in Debian (which I naïvely assumed had already been done before I took over maintenance.) Don Armstrong 1: I've taken over maintenance of lilypond from Thomas Bushnell; hopefully I'll be able to keep up with you all. If any of you run across Debian specific issues, feel free to fi