Hi Andy, Thanks for the encouragement, help, and new links, All the best on your journey :-) I think the keywords are slowly and patience.
Cheers! dave. Andy Farnell wrote: > This is a great direction Dave. I am just starting a similar > journey myself with a view to becoming a Debian packager > in multimedia distros. There is a lot to learn. Stay on it.. > > I started here > > http://www.debian.org/devel/ > > and went right back to basics with a full revision of > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ > > aiming towards a thorough understanding of > > http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ > > so when something is missing/ not working, it's possible > to go through the proper steps to put it into > the repo. > > > > > > > On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:36:32 +0000 > dave <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Daniel James wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Rosea, >>> >>> >>> >>>> If the apps are in the repo, in good condition and up-to-date, >>>> people just have to do a aptitude install... >>>> But apps which are not in a regular distro, like LV2 plugins/apps, >>>> jconv, (gt)klick and Vst configuration (FST, dssi-vst, wineasio) , but >>>> which are good for audio production should be in 64studio, *at least >>>> available in the repo* >>>> >>>> >>> Right, the main problem with that is that there aren't enough people >>> maintaining new multimedia packages for Debian, which also means that >>> Ubuntu and other Debian-based distros don't have them. >>> >>> Cheers! >>> >>> Daniel >>> >>> >> Hi, >> >> Just started the first steps of the journey last week, >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia >> >> I have subscribed to: >> >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers >> >> Have printed out the pdf of this: >> >> http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ >> >> Looking at qmidiarp: >> >> http://trac.64studio.com/64studio/ticket/160 >> >> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=69130&package_id=127670 >> >> There are no help files included in the archive tarball >> so I've mailed the upstream author(s) this morning >> and am waiting on a reply. >> I'm sure there are others with experience of this >> who could guide, and help improve the package choice. >> If a few users chose a package each, the list would soon grow. >> The pkg-multimedia-maintainers mail looks complex but >> I plan to take it one step at a time. >> >> Cheers! >> dave. >> _______________________________________________ >> 64studio-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
