On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Gavin Pryke <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 26 Oct 2010 12:54:30 alex stone wrote: >> Can i respectfully request an updated ebuild for Ecasound, from 2.6.0, >> to the current 2.7.2? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Alex. > > Hi Alex > > I'm not familiar with ecasound but looking at the output of eix I don't see it > in the pro-audio tree, it seems to be in portage proper, maybe you could file > a bug on bugs.gentoo.org and ask for it to be bumped there? I don't mean to > sound funny or anything about this but if a package is in the portage tree > already then in my humble opinion it makes sense for Gentoo developers to > maintain it rather than duplicate the effort in the pro-audio overlay. > > Please see this list for all ecasound bugs, I notice a bump request for 2.7.1: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL+ecasound > > I looked briefly at the homepage of Nama but I have little experience > packaging perl applications on Gentoo and the dependencies look tricky to get > right. > It looks as though Nama could be installed by g-cpan somehow or maybe a > nama-9999 ebuild could possibly be made. > > Sorry I couldn't be of more help and thanks for your emails. > > Best regards > Gavin > > >
Gavin, thanks for the reply. I'll contact Gentoo main, and see if they're willing to upgrade. Alex. -- www.openoctave.org [email protected] [email protected]
