On Thursday 21 Dec 2006 18:17, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> I've discovered later that they included also Rosegarden4-1.2.3 in
> Mandriva 2007. Why? Maybe there are some customer prefering a release
> with more bugs and less features? I don't know.
Because they lost sight of this package, didn't care enough, and/or
didn't have the staff and the time.
There's nothing unusual about Mandrake in this. RH/Fedora has never
included Rosegarden-4 as far as I know. SuSE used to have quite a nice
low-latency 2.4 kernel with 1000Hz timer that would have been very
suitable for Rosegarden, but they never managed to ship a satisfactory
Rosegarden package (I was a SuSE customer for some years), they
switched to a 250Hz timer along with everyone else in 2.6.whatever, and
they eventually solved the problem by dropping Rosegarden. Debian
solves the corporate problem (can we take responsibility for shipping
bad packages?) by distributing responsibility, so Rosegarden languished
for a long time between maintainers without it ever being Debian's
fault (btw, although Mike has been a godsend, I won't hear a bad word
for our former Debian packager -- Enrique was one of our oldest users
and supporters, with a thankless job to do as Debian maintainer). It
remains to be seen whether and/or how Ubuntu will solve this, or
whether they can use Debian to do the hard work for them.
I'm a lot more sympathetic to the distributions since I've been working
on one myself, as you might imagine. Producing a distro like Mandriva
is very hard work, probably not very lucrative, and open to criticism
from an amazing number of different fronts.
Chris
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