On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:10:35AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > as the front page at jackaudio.org notes: "Nobody should be using > 0.109.X". yes, it apparently works but there are so many deep, deep > bugs in that version that i lost count of them. Good to know, thanks. > i would have been > happier if ever distro had taken careful note of this and replaced > 0.109 but of course ... no. Presumably a lack of effort on the part of the packagers. > no, the bugs were very much deeper than any distribution patches. > also, please note that (a) debian has *never* pushed their patches > upstream [...] Yes, that's annoying. I'm upstream for pptp and pptpd, and I have to go dig in Debian and Ubuntu patches if I want anything to come out of it. The packagers rarely directly engage upstream. Then again nor are they *required* to engage by the license. > > Also, the ardour build on Debian may have been adjusted already to > > compensate for this problem. ?There are about 6000 lines in the diff for > > the Sid version. > > once again, these patches have never been pushed upstream. incredibly > anti-social behaviour. In the absence of social behaviour by the packagers, upstream has to take what it can get. -- James Cameron mailto:quozl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
