Re: Lilypond 2.16 fedora 17

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, David Kastrup wrote:
>
> > > > 'Any chance 'that the forthcoming' Lilypond 2.16 will be accepted in
> > > > Fedora 17'
> > >
> > > Fedora 17 packages Lilypond 2.15.29 currently.
>
> > That sounds like imprudent policy.  Packaging an unstable version should
> > only be done by somebody committed to tracking upstream developments
> > well enough to quickly replace the version.
>
> I agree. I just reported the issue on Bugzilla.

And they replied:

--- Comment #1 from Jon Ciesla <address@hidden> 2012-04-30 10:35:38 
EDT --- Normally I'd agree, but in this case I moved to the unstable 
branch because at the time the stable branch no longer built on rawhide. 
As it is, we expect the next stable to come out prior to F17 GA, so I'll 
either get it in as an update or it will be in F17.  We've done this in 
the past with things like Firefox.

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MT