That's the point, I repeat: Ubuntu aims to be easy to use and user friendly
as distro. Not anyone using it is able to downgrade a package, and it is not
impossible that downgrading procedure can break something else. If Mixxx
1.8.0 freezes with standard installation users will perceive very poor
quality of the software, and it won't be suitable for dj sets at all. Is it
not anyway possible to fix the problem so that Mixxx can use current distro
packages? Would it require a lot of work?
Enry
2010/7/26 Bill Good <[email protected]>
>
> On Sunday 25 July 2010 02:16:13 Garth Dahlstrom wrote:
> > Not sure what you would have us do about this... to play nice as a
> package
> > within the Ubuntu ecosystem, each package depends on shared lib
> > packages. When a package we depend on breaks all we can do is advise
> > the distro and upstream, which has been done.
>
> Do what Audacity does and package it ourselves. Seriously, I don't know
> _anything_ about Ubuntu, but on the surface, any distro that lets a bugged
> library sit without fix for months without fix just isn't functional.
> Especially
> when upstream has, more than likely, fixed the problem in their SCM. It'd
> be
> truly minimal work for Ubuntu/Debian, and I know they update various
> software
> between major releases, so why not PortAudio?
>
> I guess I've been thoroughly spoiled with rolling-release distros. But
> Enry's
> right, anyone who installs Mixxx through the Ubuntu package manager GUI
> isn't
> going to know to downgrade PortAudio (afaik, anyway) and get random freezes
> because (perhaps unbeknown to them) their distro is a bit of a stick in the
> mud. :)
>
> Bill
>
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