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Re: jack 0.94.0-2



>>>>> "rj" == Robert Joerdens <robertjo@phys.ethz.ch> writes:

    >> I ask this because I'd like the differences between Debian and
    >> DeMuDi package sets to be as few as possible, hopefully nearly
    >> anything.

    rj> As someone else already pointed out: that would be "hardly
    rj> anything".  ;-]

Ooops, I should stamp it over my skin :)

    >> AFAIR a separate jack package was introduced in AGNULA/DeMuDi
    >> at some point, because we wanted to have a more recent jack
    >> version than the one officially provided by Debian. I think now
    >> jack has become more stable and usable, and maybe it's not so
    >> critical anymore to upgrade to a new release as soon as
    >> possible.

    rj> You could have tried with the version(s) that was (were) in
    rj> experimental for quite some time: 0.80.0 was uploaded to
    rj> experimental 06-10-2003.

Probably we  missed it :/. I hope  such things won't  happen again, as
it's only bare duplication of work..

    >> Thus, if the jack version is not going to change for a while, I
    >> think we can drop our separate jack package and adopt the
    >> Debian one. This would solve the annoying issue of having
    >> different builds for the same package version, any package can
    >> be uploaded both to Debian and DeMuDi.
    >> 
    >> Yes that's correct, and this a good news.  Anyhow my intention
    >> is to shift forward the unstable snapshot which DeMuDi is base
    >> on and to upstream upgrade most of the applications I've
    >> packaged, building them against debian's 0.94.0 and uploading
    >> the packages both to Debian and DeMuDi.

    rj> That seems very reasonable.

Ok, I'll let everybody here to be fully informed on this.

bye,

free



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