Glad to hear the official Backports have been resurrected. Someone new
to Ubuntu Studio and not aware of the ppa, is likely to follow the
standard Ubuntu instructions to enable backports. Installing from a ppa
is always a last resort for me.
I had to think a little bit about the decision not
Hi All,
As you all know, for the past several years, we've been maintaining a backports
PPA for
our users to add to their systems to get updated software. This has worked well
for
several reasons.
However, the Ubuntu Backporters team has been resurrected and is very active.
To give it
a
On 2016-05-27 23:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Unfortunately editing the Ubuntu Wiki/help pages requires to subscribe
> to a special group now, so I won't write such a page. However, the
> information computer newbies need is very simple.
Do you have a launchpad account Ralf? You can go directly
On Fri, 27 May 2016 13:46:20 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote:
>On Fri, 27 May 2016, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote:
>
>> In the case of Kdenlive, versions 15.08 and later use a different
>> file format. They can read an old project but cannot save back to
>> the old format, saving to the new and
On Fri, 27 May 2016, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote:
In the case of Kdenlive, versions 15.08 and later use a different file format.
They can read an old project but cannot save back to the old format, saving
to the new and renaming the old one as a backup. If the user deletes the
backup, then
On 05/27/2016 01:23 PM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
> Yes, I'm planning on adding a one-time popup information for
> ubuntustudio-controls to be run at login, but that will only be helping
> those who already have it installed (which all Ubuntu Studio users will
> have, unless they uninstalled it).
If
And I just sat down to write an email requesting testers for it!
Expect instructions with links etc soon.
On 05/27/2016 12:16 PM, Set Sakrecoer wrote:
> Hi list, and specifically Ross,
>
> This was brought to my attention:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/trusty-backports/+bug/1584930
> and its all
On 05/27/2016 12:16 PM, Set Sakrecoer wrote:
> Hi list, and specifically Ross,
>
> This was brought to my attention:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/trusty-backports/+bug/1584930
> and its all "\o/ yay! Ross rocks yet again!"
>
> I read it like an open invitation to the devel-team to test the
>
In the case of Kdenlive, versions 15.08 and later use a different file format.
They can read an old project but cannot save back to the old format, saving
to the new and renaming the old one as a backup. If the user deletes the
backup, then reverts Kdenlive versions 15.04 and earlier cannot open
On Fri, May 27, 2016, at 12:16 PM, Set Sakrecoer wrote:
> I read zequence was talking on IRC about finding a good way to warn our
> users of the consequences of backports, since it appears backports are
> able to break things for people having a project in the making. Hence
> please also
Hi list, and specifically Ross,
This was brought to my attention:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/trusty-backports/+bug/1584930
and its all "\o/ yay! Ross rocks yet again!"
I read it like an open invitation to the devel-team to test the
backports but maybe it has a specific team? I'd gladly
On Tue, 3 May 2016, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
On Tue, May 3, 2016, at 06:33 PM, Len Ovens wrote:
The only two packages That may be worth doing are jackd and calf plugins
(provided calf can be done with GCC4), qjackctl is not compatable with
lib
versions in T. However, anyone who does audio with Jack
On Tue, May 3, 2016, at 06:33 PM, Len Ovens wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2016, Ross Gammon wrote:
>
> > On 05/03/2016 08:01 AM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
> >> We could in fact do a round of backports for trusty, as it is still what
> >> many people uses.
> >>
> >
> > I will add the table. We could try and
On Tue, 3 May 2016, Ross Gammon wrote:
On 05/03/2016 08:01 AM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
We could in fact do a round of backports for trusty, as it is still what
many people uses.
I will add the table. We could try and backport all the way to Trusty
from Yakkety via Xenial. But this gets harder if
On 05/03/2016 08:01 AM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
> We could in fact do a round of backports for trusty, as it is still what
> many people uses.
>
I will add the table. We could try and backport all the way to Trusty
from Yakkety via Xenial. But this gets harder if the dependencies have
changed too
On 05/02/2016 10:23 PM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
> I would also like to participate in this, if not backport request, then
> at least testing when the time comes. Was thinking of when would be the
> good time to do those, and at least every 6 months is a good time to do
> the whole list - when the next
On Mon, May 2, 2016, at 10:23 PM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
> Every now and then there may an important release that could be
> important to backport in advance, but otherwise it may be hard to do
> quality control on packages in the dev release if we have no
> confirmation if they have been tested at
On Mon, May 2, 2016, at 10:04 PM, Ross Gammon wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am hoping to maintain backports to Xenial for the 10 packages we
> decided were important enough to have in the "Mandatory" testsuite on
> the the Package Tracker.
>
> They are listed here:
>
Hi All,
I am hoping to maintain backports to Xenial for the 10 packages we
decided were important enough to have in the "Mandatory" testsuite on
the the Package Tracker.
They are listed here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/BackportsList
I am not adverse to adding other packages to the
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