On May 12, 2018, at 03:52, Florent Peyraud <[email protected]> wrote:
> You are right. The last release on our repositories is pretty (understand > "fu***ng") old. I'm currently working on packaging for the latest 2.19.2, > which is already compiling for several ubuntu and 1 debian distrubutions. As > it represents quite a big work since our packages contain patches that has > not been merged in the upstream project (@fred not yet ?) Which ones exactly? I’d like to fast-track these and get them into the v2.19.3 release. > in addition to standard packaging work, I'm concentrating on LTS releases and > maybe latest releases. A major cause of our slowness was the need to > repackage Qt3 (which is.... well.... let's say 'very old') for the new > releases, and its dependencies are starting to break everywhere. That’s putting it very charitably! > But I found yesterday is some mailing list archive that Qt4 is supposed to be > working since 2.16. Has it been stabilized (I've read that some points were > still not really stable and some crashes occured at this time) with Qt4? Not so - unfortunately! Moving to Qt4/5 basically means *completely rewriting* large portions of Rivendell, as those two Qt versions are not source-compatible. I’ve formally mapped it out, and that work would take a year or more to accomplish (during which time all other work on Rivendell would basically be at a standstill). Thus, it’s not something we really want to undertake unless there is absolutely no other alternative. > Moreover, the hpklinux upstream sources has been deeply refactored and our > packaging scripts must be updated a lot. I saw that Audioscience has an > Ubuntu PPA providing up-to-date packages, which can be a good starting point > for Ubuntu, but not recommanded for Debian. I'll see if I can repackage > starting from the sources files from the PPA. HpkLinux has always been a moving target. Good to hear that they are supporting Ubuntu directly. > I'll keep you all updated as soon as I have some Debian/Ubuntu packages ready > (my packaging setup is migrating from cowbuilder to docker based builder > images) Cool. Thank you! Cheers! |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | -- Cicero | |----------------------------------------------------------------------|
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