Hi David, 2009/11/18 David Bolton <[email protected]>: > Is it possible to get 0.9.5 in the normal repositories? 0.9.5 was released > mid August.
Apologies for my tardiness on these issues, and many thanks for your time; I'm currently in the process of applying to university, and that's necessarily eating much of my previously free time: obviously, I want to make a good application. As for the problem of 0.9.5 in 9.10, it seems unlikely that 0.9.5 can be included into the standard repositories, to which updates are normally only made to fix bugs (without introducing features, which may themselves have new bugs) or close security holes. I suppose it could be technically feasible to backport hundreds of fixes from 0.9.5 to 0.9.4, but I do not think, considering the situation, that there is much merit to that. As it is, 0.9.5 is not in karmic as I could not find a sponsor for Debian in time for it to enter Debian unstable before the Ubuntu archive froze. The difficulty in finding an available developer to sponsor my packages is always frustrating; in the medium term, I would of course be seeking Debian Developer status myself, but for the same reasons as above, that's not really doable right now. The alternative is to push the packages directly into Ubuntu first, but that would potentially require later unnecessary work to reconcile the two package branches. To compensate, a middle-of-the-road solution is to get an updated package into the ubuntu-backports repository. Naturally, that would require users to add that repository to their systems, but the process for that is less roundabout than adding the mscore-stable repository, where 0.9.5 is as you know already available. I hope this answers the question satisfactorily, I hope I soon am able to find a chunk of time to attend to mscore packaging matters, but I do also hope that you understand my situation. Best regards, -- Toby Smithe :: http://fulltinreality.com -- Getting MuseScore 0.9.5 in Ubuntu 9.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484670 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
