Kernel 2.6.36 and libraw1394 2.0.6 wrt Firewire Audio Devices

[Adrian Knoth]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:12:11PM +0100, rosea grammostola wrote:

> > I've seen some Squeeze exception requests for this that have been flatly
> > denied (as Squeeze for multimedia slides hopelessly further into
> > obsolescence)
> 
> Sure, still lots to improve, but there are some good developments imho and
> some people work hard to make it as good as possible. You can ask yourself
> what you're doing to improve the state of multimedia in Debian and/ or
> squeeze...


Honestely? I think info at bandshed is right, at least to some degree. Back
at DC10, Debian unstable was more up-to-date than Ubuntu 10.04. With
Ubuntu 10.10 released, they're now on par, and within some months,
Squeeze will be more or less outdated.

We already knew this back in July: multimedia upstream's pace is so much
faster than Debian's release cycle that we need to come up with a better
solution. CUT (constantly usable testing) seemed to be such an option,
though I've never heard about it again.

I have the very same problem: there are a couple of important fixes in
the FFADO firewire drivers, but RT denied their inclusion. It's somewhat
frustrating to know that we'll ship with broken software, but that's the
game.

I was close to entirely ignoring this release thing and start uploading
updated packages to unstable again, but then decided to obey the
project's goal and stick to the idea of a freeze.