Re: RT prio settings and much more
Hi,
|--==> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:51:59 +0100, Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola@gmail.com> said:
GR> 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.
>>
>>
GR> I think it would be a good goal to have all the possible multimedia
GR> packages which are in 64studio, in Debian too, when possible (would be
GR> nice if the 64studio devs would have the same goal).
That's definitely the case. If there's some divergence between the
two, it's just because of strictly technical reasons (see the ardour
story), preventing me to uploaded certain changes to Debian.
GR> It should be a win-win situation.
Agreed.
GR> There are also a lot of PPA packages, made by Ubuntu-users. It
GR> would be nice if the 64studio devs doesn't use those packages,
GR> but package those packages for Debian and implement those in
GR> 64studio. This would give the best results for 64studio and
GR> Debian imo.
Indeed this is exactly what we're doing.
Ciao!
Free
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