why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing? (was Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production)

[Grammostola Rosea]

Hi,

Now we're talking about improving Debian for multimedia, realtime 
kernels and the like, I thought let's make some work on more things to 
overcome some dissadvantages of Debian for audio production compared to 
other distro's.

Why is such a core app and also beautiful app as Ardour is, not even in 
Debian stable or testing? This is a big problem imo and it should be 
solved as soon as possible. I can't imagine that there is a real 
problem, cause I know the Ardour devs as people who respect GNU/GPL...

I read this on the Debian multimedia mailinglist:


>   EDR> It's not a matter of debian developer laziness ... the ardour in sid
>   EDR> needs patches to _upstream_ libraries. If/when those upstream libraries
>   EDR> accept the patches the ardour devs need, then those libraries can get
>   EDR> into debian and ardour can use the debian packaged versions rather than
>   EDR> it's own forked versions.
>
> 100% agreed, ardour not in lenny is a Real Pity (TM). To recap
> happened:
>
> 0) the ardour package was built against some 3rd party libs shipped
> inside the upstream tarball, this raised an RC bug
>
> 1) that bug was around for a long time, there were no easy fix for
> that, but eventually all of the patches made it the 3rd party upstream
> projects, which in turned made it to si
>
> 2) I've fixed RC bug in ardour in version 2.7.1-2
>
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/ardour/ardour_2.7.1-2/changelog
>
> It was on Dec 18th, that means nearly 2 months before lenny got
> release. At this point ardour was RC-free BUT..
>
> 3) It was depending on jackd 0.109.2, uploaded a few days before. Note
> that jack 0.109.2 was a very important release because it fixed
> important bugs in version 0.106, which had been around for almost one
> year.
>
> Unfortunately lenny was already freezed by that time, and although
> both of the above updates were really safe (IMO) and despite all the
> efforts I and especially Reinhard put into convincing the release
> managers, we are unable to convince them to accept the updates in
> lenny.
>
> I personally felt very disappointed by all this, especially
> considering that lenny got out *2* months later.
>
>
>   
( 
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org/msg03163.html 
)


Please some reactions on this issue and I hope it can be solved! Would 
be great! :)

Thanks in advance,

\r