Hi Lilypond 2.19.80 is not a stable release, and should not be in gentoo stable, although the new version is suitable for testing. And I wonder why the old lilypond 2.18.2 is not the deafault. According to www://lilypond.org this is the newest stable version. Fileformats has been changed upstream so you cant go back to an older and stable version again. Have a nice day
It had to go stable because older lilypond doesn't work with guile-2, and as such was blocking guile-2 stabling for everyone otherwise, which in turn blocked other stable software (requiring guile-2) newer versions from going to gentoo stable. See bug 647476
We can drop lilypond to ~arch entirely, I guess.
Hi again Dropping all versios to testing is not necessary. The 2.18 version is working just fine. I have masked the 2.19.* version, because I as professional are depending on the program, and need a stable predictable behavior. In a few weeks the next 2.20 version will be released, and everything should be fine by then. Have a nice day
As already said in the scribus bug: Some upstream release cycles align very badly with rolling release needs as in Gentoo. lilypond upstream's current stable release is from March 23, 2014, that says it all. I don't think there is anything to add to comment #1.
If there are actual issues with 2.19.80, we can hope that each subsequent release is fixing more than it breaks, I checked and opened bug 673660 for 2.19.82.
Please test with 2.19.83 then.
