Daniel James wrote:
Hi Raffaele,
"Debian does not support multimedia desktop/laptop users 'out of the
box'."
If you all were coding for debian packages probably they will ;-)
We do, but what the Debian project chooses to make a priority is not
under the control of the small multimedia packaging team. For example,
Ardour was removed from Debian testing over a technicality to do with
embedded library policy.
e.g. I can't figure out why Ardour 2.x is in sid from ages and not in
testing while on stable is 0.99...
That's why... The fact that Ardour is a critical package for us, and
even with embedded, custom versions of libraries is a relatively small
package (compared to say Iceweasel or OpenOffice.org) did not matter.
> isn't Free a debian mantainer?
Yes, he maintains a lot of multimedia packages and some others too.
I think it would be a good goal to have all the possible multimedia
packages which are in 64studio, in Debian too, when possible (would be
nice if the 64studio devs would have the same goal). Also the switch
from 64studio to be Ubuntu based, shouldn't harm the state of multimedia
in Debian imo. Debian should be as optimal as possible for multimedia
production. The existence of 64studio doesn't and shouldn't harm that
goal. It should be a win-win situation. There are also a lot of PPA
packages, made by Ubuntu-users. It would be nice if the 64studio devs
doesn't use those packages, but package those packages for Debian and
implement those in 64studio. This would give the best results for
64studio and Debian imo.
Thanks for your work!
\r
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