i would like to make it clear that if Debian attempts to distribute a version of Ardour that builds without internal linkage, we (the ardour project) will be unable to provide support to any Debian user who has problems of any kind. we have notified Gentoo of the same thing, and have so far had to tell several Gentoo users that they must be rebuild their binary version of ardour disabling the build flags that Gentoo's ebuild set up by default. if this happens within Debian, we will also notify users of the same thing.
while i understand the theoretical and practical reasons for your objections to embedded copies, we spent 3 years dealing with endless hassles caused by us *not* embedding copies of the C++ libraries that we use. even on systems like debian, where theoretically the system copies of C++ libraries and the compiler are always in sync, we *still* get users who, for some reason, have reinstalled the compiler or the libraries and as a result cause bizarre behaviour on the part of ardour (and other C++ applications that use similar libraries). the embedded version of libsndfile exists because we have patched libsndfile and thus far erik (libsndfile's author) has not accepted our patches. far more people follow ardour.org for support issues than go to debian-specific channels, and we will not be railroaded into silently dealing with a decision (were you to make it) to force linkage to the system version of the C++ libraries that we rely on rather than our internal copies that are guaranteed to have been built by the same C++ compiler with the same compile-time flags. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
