Hello All, sorry I am writing again, but this time directly about this, and that is raises this question that was not an issue until now, but I find it to be very important for the stability of our project, as right now our repo, i.e. some packages including the puredyne metapackage are broken. I would like to raise the question of making our tree of packages independant of the Debian Multimedia repository, the current problem being only one example for answering -Yup- :-) I know this would mean we'd have to make a huge amount of packages, I will try and make a list of those that need to be debianized by us to compensate, but the benefit of that work is clear I think. We would have the control over which versions of some really important libraries to use and could also freeze those for a particular release. I would be willing to put some time and effort to make this happen, maybe somebody else would want to chip in too.
The second issue is something that I realised after poking around with jack API and also in talking to robert_a on irc: we should contemplate providing our own jack binary/library. The one in Debian (the latest stable release) has a load of bugs that are fixed in svn, this also includes new functionality. Some packages that I can think of from top of my head: - ffmpeg / libavformat / libavcodec - cinelerra - avidemux - jack - ardour - mplayer - mencoder Ultimately, I think, this will make our distribution much more stable and dependable, as decisions made by the MM repo team (like renaming core libraries) will not anymore affect us, requiring us to rebuild every dependent package. I'm really interested in everybodies opinion on this subject. If its a no-go, let me know and I'll shut up :-) (but then no crying when our repo breaks again!!!) gre4t afternoon to everybody, Karsten
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