2009/3/11 Daniel James <dan...@64studio.com> > 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.
I can't go in deep about debian packages accept/reject workflow and policy stuff but non-free repository should allow some compromise in these direction... am I wrong? > 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. > so maybe we should switch to sid and pull on ardour by popcon > > 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 :-) Of course, moreover we want you to live four hundred years in order to spent 50% of coding for debian pkgs Cheers! > > Daniel regards r
