Hi Paul,
Just to be clear. It is possible to package Musescore 4 in Ubuntu
(without waiting for Debian), and maybe put it in a ppa. But that would
require somebody with the necessary time and skills to volunteer.
Installing stuff from upstream (from the musecore website) can be risky,
especially if you are running an older Ubuntu release. There could be
incompatibilities in the version of libraries that Musescore 4 relies
on. Will upstream support you in this case? Ubuntu certainly cannot
support you. If you are desperate to use Musescore 4 (you cannot wait
for Debian), then I would ask around if anyone has had success using the
upstream version of Musescore 4 on your version of Ubuntu before doing
it. Otherwise you may have to uninstall it later and clean up any mess
yourself.
Regards,
Ross
On 14.02.2023 23.02, Erich Eickmeyer wrote:
Hi Paul,
Packages in Ubuntu may not be the latest. Ubuntu aims for stability,
so "latest" may not be a good idea. Post-release updates are only
considered if they are fixes for security vulnerabilities, high impact
bug fixes, or unintrusive bug fixes with substantial benefit.
Furthermore, that package comes unchanged from Debian, which means
there isn't an Ubuntu developer that touches it. So, this is really up
to if Debian picks it up, but then it will only land in a later
release. Additionally, Debian is coming up on their bi-yearly freeze
in which they begin their release process for their next version, so
there's probably not a whole lot of activity to be happening until
later this year once that freeze starts.
All of that to say it's entirely out of our hands at this point on the
Ubuntu Studio level as we're not the ones dealing with it; we're just
putting it on the .iso image.
I hope you understand and I hope that helps.
--
Erich Eickmeyer
Project Leader
Ubuntu Studio
On Tue, Feb 14 2023 at 01:05:32 PM -08:00:00, Paul DeShaw
<pauldes...@gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings,
Are there any plans to put the latest MuseScore version into the
repository? Or should I just install it directly from musescore.org
<http://musescore.org>? I'm running last year's LTS--it's gotten so
slow and glitchy I am reluctant to upgrade--so maybe that's why
Synaptic isn't showing the latest MuseScore.
~PD
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