Jonas, Thanks for the reply,
I'm sorry to have not been more concise with my question, My question about Stable was semi-rhetorical. Having observed the pattern of Debian Stable in the past (and yes I was complaining a little wee bit). Now that there is a dedicated multimedia packaging team I wonder if AV Linux should continue with Squeeze (less fresh packages, far more core library stability) and will there be a better representation of multimedia updates through down to Stable?. Or will I need to continue using Testing as a base in order to continue keeping pace?. Does that make more sense? I'm not even sure if it is an answerable question...but opinions are a valued response as well. Thanks, -GLEN > Hi Glen, > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:55:07PM -0700, i...@bandshed.net wrote: > >>I am a member of this list but not the packaging team, I develop AV >>Linux and use your packages from GIT, Unstable and Squeeze regularly. >>Last year when I released AV Linux 2.0 based on Squeeze I had to build >>about 75% of the Audio applications from source in order to fulfill the >>status quo with other Multimedia intensive Distributions. The amount of >>ground this team has covered in less than a year is earth-shattering, I >>now have less than 10% of my applications outside of the official >>Debian channels. >> >>Perhaps in the long term you guys will make me redundant but my user >>numbers continue to grow and I have to contemplate what direction to >>continue in. > > Perhaps you could see the benefit of maintaining those remaining 10% at > Alioth? > > In other words: Why not join the team - even if your target it a > derivative of Debian rather than Debian itself? I could certainly see a > benefit in working as close together as possible! :-) > > > >>I haven't found Debian Testing/Unstable to be a terrible easy thing to >>distribute, as a single developer I don't have an extensive breakage >>buffering infrastructure like SiduX does and I basically have to tell >>my users not to update and provide them with regular updated ISO >>snapshots that I have broken and fixed to a point of useability. > > Interesting. Seriously. > > I have quite some opinions on ways to produce custom distributions based > on Debian, but that's off topic for this list. I'd be happy to discuss > this topic further at the ble...@lists.debian.org list instead. > > > >>Finally to my question(s)...how much of the current pkg-multimedia >>inventory will find it's way into Debian 6.0? > > Do you know about the Debian QA pages? Have a look here: > http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > ...and notice the "Testing" column - that's what will end in next stable > Debian distribution release, if all goes well. > > >>Also now that there is a pkg-multimedia team in place for the next >>stable release will new applications eventually make their way into >>Stable? Or will it be the age old pattern of Debian Stable being bliss >>for the first few moths of it's release and then being woefully out of >>date for multimedia heads? > > Yes, that is exactly how it is: after a few months WHAM! everything is > old, boring and shitty and everyone are just longing for the next > release happening ages later. > > Or were you not trolling? Seems you knew the answer already and really > wanted to complain. Perhaps if you rephrase your question it might be > easier to understand (for me at least). > > >>I wish I could say that Xorg, Udev, Grub2 and other libs have been fun >>to work with this past year...but NOT! I'd like to know what to expect >>to continue on for the next year. (Or until you guys get rid of me!) > > Again - what is your question here? > > > kind regards, > > - Jonas > > -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private > _______________________________________________ > pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list > pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers > _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers