Hi Raffaele,
"Debian does not support multimedia desktop/laptop users 'out of the box'." If you all were coding for debian packages probably they will ;-)
We do, but what the Debian project chooses to make a priority is not under the control of the small multimedia packaging team. For example, Ardour was removed from Debian testing over a technicality to do with embedded library policy.
e.g. I can't figure out why Ardour 2.x is in sid from ages and not in testing while on stable is 0.99...
That's why... The fact that Ardour is a critical package for us, and even with embedded, custom versions of libraries is a relatively small package (compared to say Iceweasel or OpenOffice.org) did not matter.
> isn't Free a debian mantainer? Yes, he maintains a lot of multimedia packages and some others too.
There are many commercial organisations that contribute to Debian,
many of them much larger than us.
That's probably true... €/$ comes into play ever
Free Software developers still need to eat :-) Cheers! Daniel