2009/3/17 Free Ekanayaka <[email protected]> > Hi Eric, > > |--==> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:31:32 -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki < > [email protected]> said: > > >>So, sid/unstable version of Ardour will be there forever and ever and > >>never be released nor meet testing because of debian developer > "laziness" > >>in patching... > >>...can someone borrow me a flame-thrower tank? > > EDR> It's not a matter of debian developer laziness ... the ardour in sid > EDR> needs patches to _upstream_ libraries. If/when those upstream > libraries > EDR> accept the patches the ardour devs need, then those libraries can get > EDR> into debian and ardour can use the debian packaged versions rather > than > EDR> it's own forked versions. > > 100% agreed, ardour not in lenny is a Real Pity (TM). To recap > happened: > > 0) the ardour package was built against some 3rd party libs shipped > inside the upstream tarball, this raised an RC bug > > 1) that bug was around for a long time, there were no easy fix for > that, but eventually all of the patches made it the 3rd party upstream > projects, which in turned made it to si > > 2) I've fixed RC bug in ardour in version 2.7.1-2 > > > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/ardour/ardour_2.7.1-2/changelog > > It was on Dec 18th, that means nearly 2 months before lenny got > release. At this point ardour was RC-free BUT.. > > 3) It was depending on jackd 0.109.2, uploaded a few days before. Note > that jack 0.109.2 was a very important release because it fixed > important bugs in version 0.106, which had been around for almost one > year. > > Unfortunately lenny was already freezed by that time, and although > both of the above updates were really safe (IMO) and despite all the > efforts I and especially Reinhard put into convincing the release > managers, we are unable to convince them to accept the updates in > lenny. > > I personally felt very disappointed by all this, especially > considering that lenny got out *2* months later. > > So Cassiel, before claiming that 64 Studio Ltd. doesn't contribute to > Debian, read the package changelogs and the BTS.
I have already apologized for my foolish words, once again sorry++ > > EDR> As to any criticism's of Free, anyone who doesn't know should look up > EDR> the history of agnula/demudi. Multimedia in debian (and by proxy, > EDR> ubuntu) wouldn't be anywhere near where it is today with out his past > EDR> and continuing efforts. > > Thanks for your words Eric, they're very much appreciated! > > Ciao! > > Free Ciao r
