Guys, I'm about to have a bit of a meltdown over getting beta2 into Ubuntu's universe repository. I've been trying to get the package into the repo for days, and I'm extremely frustrated by the situation we're in.
We need beta2 in the repo because beta1 was packaged by Free Ekanayaka for 64-studio/Debian, and this package was synced across to Universe. That means buggy/unstable/crappy beta1 is in Universe, and every Ubuntu users that tries it is going to see a very half-finished release. (Beta2 is _much_ better.) If you want to follow the hellish scenario I'm in, see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mixxx/+bug/190589 Basically, Free took the 1.4.2 or whatever package that was in Debian, and updated it to 1.6.0. When I created the Ubuntu package before, I took the _1.5.2_ package and updated. We basically both did the same thing independently, and as a result, have to separate changelogs and debdiff histories. So now the MOTU guys are confused as hell as to why my 1.6.0 beta2 package looks so different from the beta1 package (which was synced from trunk). I understand that the MOTU need to exercise quality control, but forcing us to micromanage the package history in a situation like this is ludicrous. Getting an updated package into Ubuntu has been such a nightmare this time around that I'm considering just blowing it off forever. All I have to do to build our own official releases is run one scons command, and then upload that to our site (easy). To take that official package and get it into Ubuntu has taken me a week of recompiling, making little changes to the debian files, and just making lots of changes that are completely insignificant to the end-user. If any of these changes would have made Mixxx a better program or given our users a better experience, that would have been OK, but instead, none of what I've wasted my last week on makes a damn difference to anyone except repository maintainers. </rant> Albert P.S. February 14th is the "feature freeze" for universe, which is why I'm extra stressed out about this. If we don't get it in by tomorrow, Hardy/Mixxx users are screwed "out-of-the-box". ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
