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. Cheers, Benjamin
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