Hi Lasconic, Lasconic <[email protected]> writes: > The fact that MuseScore 1.3 is not the default in the 2 last Ubuntu/Debian > is an anomaly... Same for the fact that 1.3 is not available for Saucy yet. > Ubuntu has been the most popular distrib in the past year and so it was > often up to date regarding MuseScore. I hope it will not happen again and > that's why we are trying to get more people involved. > See > http://musescore.org/node/23227 > https://twitter.com/musescore/status/398396092062380032
There are a couple of reasons for the lack of MuseScore 1.3 in Debian and Ubuntu. Firstly, Debian sponsorship -- whereby a Debian developer uploads a package for a maintainer who is not an official Debian developer -- is a notoriously slow volunteer effort, and since the Ubuntu MuseScore package derives from that in Debian (to minimise divergence), Ubuntu inherits that delay. Secondly, I've become very busy recently, and so have not been especially proactive in pursuing sponsorship. Whilst the Debian package system does lend itself to producing a high-quality and well-integrated distribution, it requires quite the investment of effort. It's for this reason that I fell behind in keeping the semi-official unstable PPA up to date, because I could not afford to keep merging the changes in the MuseScore codebase with the requirements of the Debian packaging system. I do have the sources of a package for 1.3 available on my system -- they were only taken down from the Debian 'mentors' site because no-one uploaded them. I can upload those sources to the PPA for Ubuntu, and re-upload them to the Debian mentors site for sponsorship. If there is anyone who is keen to share the maintenance burden for the musescore package, they should grab those sources and familiarise themselves, but I don't think there's much to be gained from starting from scratch. Best, Toby ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Mscore-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mscore-developer
