Ubuntu Studio initiative to improve freedesktop categorization in desktop files

2015-06-16 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
Hello everyone. I'm Kaj Ailomaa, member of the debian multimedia team, and project lead of Ubuntu Studio. Recently we have in the Ubuntu Studio dusted off a plan to improve on the freedesktop categorization in desktop files as one part of improving application finding. This would probably mean

Re: Ubuntu Studio initiative to improve freedesktop categorization in desktop files

2015-06-16 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
Sorry for the double post. The first mail was caught in what I thought perhaps was the spam filter. The next one got through just in time for me to have posted this. Sorry :/ ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list

Ubuntu Studio initiative to improve freedesktop categorization in desktop files

2015-06-16 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
Hello everyone. I'm Kaj Ailomaa, member of the debian multimedia team, and project lead of Ubuntu Studio. Recently we have in the Ubuntu Studio dusted off a plan to improve on the freedesktop categorization in desktop files as one part of improving application finding. This would probably mean

Re: Change from audio group to something else

2014-10-31 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014, at 01:45 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote: Hi Kaj, On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Kaj Ailomaa zeque...@mousike.me wrote: I think I was able to figure out pretty much all about how the cgroups tools and configs work (and what is possible), however, I never got realtime

Re: Change from audio group to something else

2014-10-28 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
I think I was able to figure out pretty much all about how the cgroups tools and configs work (and what is possible), however, I never got realtime scheduling to work Not sure why. Compiled a kernel with CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED on (which apparently is turned off nowadays), which I believe is

Change from audio group to something else

2014-10-26 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
I just reported a bug on the usage of audio group. bug #766914 As it seems to be considered a bad group for users to belong to, and the fact that jackd packages expects the users to be apart of it, I propose to remove audio as a user default and create a new group for jack specifically. ffado

Re: Change from audio group to something else

2014-10-26 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
The bug got closed before I had the time to blink, so I'm taking the discussion to debian-devel list. On Sun, Oct 26, 2014, at 09:07 PM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: I just reported a bug on the usage of audio group. bug #766914 As it seems to be considered a bad group for users to belong

Re: Change from audio group to something else

2014-10-26 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014, at 09:32 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Seems to me that goal of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/TheAudioGroup is to move from POSIX groups to dynamically allocated access rights. Would it perhaps be possible and better to similarly allocate the right to realtime

Re: Change from audio group to something else

2014-10-26 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014, at 11:14 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Not sure if you still consider use of classic POSIX group for this, just renaing to be another than audio. If you do, then let me try again to explain my point: The Ubuntu wiki page mentions the reason for avoiding static Audio

Cadence - Was (Re: [SCM] cadence/master: update upload target)

2014-10-25 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014, at 09:45 PM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013, at 09:45 PM, siret...@users.alioth.debian.org wrote: The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 0e545ce6a10dd59811b8ca6a15641badc43b42af Author: Reinhard Tartler siret...@tauware.de Date

ardour3 - would like some help getting it released

2013-06-15 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
Would be great if someone could help getting ardour3 released. I sent a mail to adi, but he was travelling for a couple of days. The reason is simply that I'd like to include it with the release of Ubuntu Studio 13.10, and also start preparing to backport it to older releases. Though not a strict

Re: jack2 packaging

2013-06-15 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013, at 03:47 PM, Adrian Knoth wrote: Frankly, I don't like your idea of splitting the package and defining a conflict between them. There has to be a better solution which allows for co-installation. One could further split the jackd2 package into something like -

Re: jack2 packaging

2013-06-04 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
On Wed, May 29, 2013, at 09:12 AM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: Has there been a discussion on what would be the best approach for packaging jack? I find that there sometimes is a problem where users wind up having both jackd and jackdbus running simultaniously. Is there any good reason

Re: jack2 packaging

2013-06-04 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
sorry, seems like I replied to the wrong receiver. On Wed, Jun 5, 2013, at 05:42 AM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: On Wed, Jun 5, 2013, at 02:49 AM, Robin Gareus wrote: On 06/05/2013 02:18 AM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: On Wed, May 29, 2013, at 09:12 AM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: I'd like to go ahead

jack2 packaging

2013-05-29 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
Has there been a discussion on what would be the best approach for packaging jack? I find that there sometimes is a problem where users wind up having both jackd and jackdbus running simultaniously. Is there any good reason for that to be able to happen? Or should jack2 be packaged into two

Re: Wish to join the team

2013-04-05 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:20:04 +0200, Jaromír Mikeš mira.mi...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/3/29 Kaj Ailomaa zeque...@mousike.me On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:06:12 +0100, Kaj Ailomaa zeque...@mousike.me wrote: Hi Kaj, it looks like your request has been unnoticed in Easter rush. I hope someone

Wish to join the team

2013-03-29 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
Hi, I'm Kaj Ailomaa, developer and member of the core team for Ubuntu Studio, maintainer of linux-lowlatency (Ubuntu Precise and Quantal), and wanting to get more involved in Debian packaging/bug fixing. LP Account: https://launchpad.net/~zequence Alioth Account: https://alioth.debian.org

Re: Wish to join the team

2013-03-29 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:01:28 +0100, Kaj Ailomaa zeque...@mousike.me wrote: Hi, I'm Kaj Ailomaa, developer and member of the core team for Ubuntu Studio, maintainer of linux-lowlatency (Ubuntu Precise and Quantal), and wanting to get more involved in Debian packaging/bug fixing. LP

Re: Wish to join the team

2013-03-29 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:01:28 +0100, Kaj Ailomaa zeque...@mousike.me wrote: Hi, I'm Kaj Ailomaa, developer and member of the core team for Ubuntu Studio, maintainer of linux-lowlatency (Ubuntu Precise and Quantal), and wanting to get more involved in Debian packaging/bug fixing. LP

Bug#699127: qjackctl wrapper script broken and not needed anymore

2013-01-27 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
Package: qjackctl Version: 0.3.9-2 The wrapper script /usr/bin/qjackctl (launcher.sh) never uses pasuspender, since the return of the line: `whereis -b pasuspender | cut -d ':' -f 2 | tr -d ' '` is not as expected: /usr/bin/pasuspender/usr/bin/X11/pasuspender Also, since we don't need

Re: Bug#682792: marked as done (jackd2: jackdbus does not terminate, when stopped)

2012-11-21 Thread kaj . ailomaa
Sorry, I seem to have missed the upload to experimental. Meantime, I was pointed out to a couple of commits that would fix the bug, and decided to create a patch of it. And I got it uploaded to Ubuntu development jackd2 branch

Please update jackd2 git tree to latest to fix #682792

2012-11-04 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
From what I can tell, the jackd2 git is updated with last upstream commit done at 2012-03-15. To fix Debian bug #682792, and launchpad bug #956438 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jackd2/+bug/956438 , please update the source to latest upstream. As I don't have a good concept of

Re: Please update jackd2 git tree to latest to fix #682792

2012-11-04 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:57:23 +0100, Reinhard Tartler siret...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure that uploading a new upstream to unstable would be acceptable to the release team. However, if you could update our branch at http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/jackd2.git, then I

Re: Debug symbols in packages, what's the policy?

2012-09-12 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 13:05:01 +0200, Kaj Ailomaa zeque...@mousike.me wrote: I had someone asking about this on a Ubuntu Studio IRC channel, and myself being ignorant on the subject, I got help from the same person on collecting some info on debugging symbols being built in into debian

Debug symbols in packages, what's the policy?

2012-09-09 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
I had someone asking about this on a Ubuntu Studio IRC channel, and myself being ignorant on the subject, I got help from the same person on collecting some info on debugging symbols being built in into debian multimedia packages, and also searched the web a bit to see what I could find.

Bug#682792: jackd2: jackdbus does not terminate, when stopped

2012-07-25 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
Package: jackd2 Version: 1.9.8~dfsg.4+20120529git007cdc37-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, jackdbus will not terminate, when using qjackctl or jack_control to stop it. (this happens once in a while, more frequently, when using qjackctl). -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid

Bug#656910: replace memlock limited using a script to determine RAM size at each boot

2012-01-25 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
This is again not a subject for this bug, but could perhaps be a small addition to the jack-common package? There has been some concern whether using memlock unlimited is safe, but in order to know what to set it to, for instance 95% of the memory size, you would first need to check the

Bug#656910: audio group is not a default group for users

2012-01-23 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
Now, first of all, let me apologize for cross-posting earlier. However, since it was adviced that comments would be done here, I will also put my case here. It is not clear to me at this point if audio group is the best group to use for jack and realtime operation, but nevertheless, whatever

jackd installation, audio group?

2012-01-22 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
Would it be terribly difficult to include a choice for adding users to audio group during the installation of jackd? Adding /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf only solves half the problem, and wouldn't it just make is so much easier if the user(s) would also become member of audio group in the