Re: RT prio settings and much more

[Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola@gmail.com>]

Daniel James wrote:
> 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.
I think it would be a good goal to have all the possible multimedia 
packages which are in 64studio, in Debian too, when possible (would be 
nice if the 64studio devs would have the same goal). Also the switch 
from 64studio to be Ubuntu based, shouldn't harm the state of multimedia 
in Debian imo. Debian should be as optimal as possible for multimedia 
production. The existence of 64studio doesn't and shouldn't harm that 
goal. It should be a win-win situation. There are also a lot of PPA 
packages, made by Ubuntu-users. It would be nice if the 64studio devs 
doesn't use those packages, but package those packages for Debian and 
implement those in 64studio. This would give the best results for 
64studio and Debian imo.

Thanks for your work!

\r