Hi all, I've been trying to do two things in one: Learn a bit about debian/ubuntu packaging + creating a ppa with up-to-date versions of some of the applications that I would use myself, that is music production applications, for hardy and intrepid.
The packages in my ppa are completely untested (this cannot be stressed enough, I haven't even tested all of them myself), and they are my first attempts ever of (re)packaging. Now, my question is: Is there any interest in an archive like this? If yes, would it be a good idea to start a team for backporting packages? Is anyone interested in working on this? Right now, the ppa holds, e.g: * ardour 2.7 * audacity 1.3.6 * hydrogen 0.9.4beta2 * ffado 2.0-rc1 * jack 0.116.1 * kernel 2.6.24 for intrepid 64-bit My idea is to keep to latest upstream versions of packages and avoid experimental versions. The reason hydrogen 0.9.4-beta2 is there, is because 0.9.3 never worked with jack+ffado for me, and the reason ffado is there, is because jack+freebob never worked with my audio device. Personally, I think there should be a semi-official archive that allows ubuntustudio users to upgrade to the latest and greatest without leaving their distribution, be it hardy or intrepid. To me, this became obvious when I realized I couldn't upgrade to intrepid due to the realtime kernel problems. I really wanted a new version of ardour, and hydrogen wouldn't work for me, and so on, so I ended up compiling everything I needed locally, but if I'm doing it, there might be others doing it as well, and some who don't know how to do it. So why not sharing, eh? Regards, Khashayar. (PS, I know I haven't included a link to the ppa. That's because all packages aren't built yet, and I want to know what people think first. Also, I have to come up with a way to REALLY STRESS that the packages are completely untested :-)) -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
