On Thursday 11 June 2009 13:56:58 Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 11.06.2009, 11:27 +0200 schrieb Reinhard Tartler: > > [ 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? > > No, I think we should stick to 1.3 and help upstream to fix all > remaining bugs. Upstream is getting close to release the stable series > 1.4. Maybe there will be a 1.3.7 before. > > For people, who wants the older 1.2.x release, someone can provide these > packages in a PPA.
We should instead provide both packages at once, one for the stable version, and one for the beta, and either make use of /etc/alternatives, or have the two packages Conflict with each other. It would be nice to have the stable packages backported to Lenny as well. -- Regards, Andres -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
