[ fullquote to maintain context for pkg-multimedia, which are CC'ed ] Fred Drueck <[email protected]> writes:
> Hello all, > > I'm not sure of the excepted etiquette or forum for my request, because I > have > never wanted to make one like it before, so I'm e-mailing the package > maintainers, I figure they are listed by aptitude for a reason, my apologies > if > I'm offending anyone and/or being a pest and thanks for the work you've done > in > providing pre-compiled software that I have used. > > As you are probably aware, Ubuntu ships version 1.3.7 of Audacity in the 9.04 > release, according the audacity website, this is a "beta version", there is > also a "stable version", currently 1.2.6. I have experienced a number of > bugs > with the "beta" version provided in Ubuntu, it's possible that these are > system-specific bugs present in the linux port of the 1.2.x series, but these > are definitely bugs I do not encounter using the stable version of Audacity > in > Windows, while I have experienced a number of similar bugs trying to use a > previous 1.3.x version of Audacity in Windows. Another problem I have i that > project files can be imported from Audacity 1.2.x into the 1.3.x branch, but > not vice-versa, and I don't want to have to use the un-stable, buggy beta > software in Windows as well. (there are work arounds that I can use to get > my > date back into 1.2.6, by exporting individual audio tracks to .WAV and then > re-importing them one at time, but I would rather not have to do that). > > Anyways, my opinion is that ubuntu should provide the "stable" 1.2.x series > of > packages from the audacity team as the default option; perhaps offering the > "beta" 1.3.x series as well. (Although I've been having a hell of time > trying > to build a functional 1.2.6 audacity package, so maybe that's why it's not in > the repos) regarding audacity, ubuntu follows the development in debian closely. I'm copying the maintainers mailing list for further input. pkg-multimedia, what do you think? shall we revert to the 1.2 series in unstable and keep 1.3 in experimental? -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
