+1 to your plan. I spent a hours trying to figure out why things were wrong in F19 when I did yum install ardour. I think people expect that to get them the most recent package.
On Fri, May 8, 2015, 8:54 AM Nils Philippsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > with the advent of Ardour version 4, the question came up why the oldest > available version 2 is packaged as "ardour" rather than the latest one: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216055#c15 > > The reason for keeping version 2 around is that while later versions can > migrate old sessions, some information is lost in the process. Ardour > version 3 became ardour3 so people could install both versions 2 and 3 > side-by-side, and that the new package got reviewed instead of the old > one (which would have been the case had I submitted an ardour2 package > for review). In that vein I packaged version 4 as ardour4, also because > ardour3-4.0.0 would have looked plain silly (despite that the session > files are compatible between versions 3 and 4) and introducing a new > major version replacing the old one with a substantially changed > look-and-feel in an existing Fedora release is a big no-no. > > The question posed in the ardour4 review ticket is valid though, so I'd > like to come up with a scheme for the future that achieves these > objectives: > > - Installing "ardour" will always get you the latest available version > (on a Fedora release -- e.g. F-20 won't get version 4 because the JACK > package is too old). > - Every major version gets its own package so side-by-side installs are > possible, especially for occasions where the session format changes > (like v2 -> v3). > - Versions which are session-compatible with newer versions get retired > from Fedora releases that aren't stable yet (e.g. v3 because the session > format is the same as with v4). > > I'd do it like this (in Fedora >= 22): > > - Move version 2 to its own ardour2 package. This would get it > re-reviewed but I guess that's a mere formality. > - Reuse the ardour package as a meta-package which simply requires the > latest versioned package. > - Retire ardour3. > > What do you think? > > Nils > -- > Nils Philippsen "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase > Red Hat a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty > [email protected] nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 > PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 > > _______________________________________________ > music mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
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