On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 10:16 +0200, rosea grammostola wrote: > On 06/02/2011 10:06 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 09:43 +0200, rosea.grammostola wrote: > >> On 06/02/2011 04:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >>> Repositories: All 'regular' Debian stable + debian-multimedia stable, > >>> excepted of Evolution + dependencies ;) (I could downgrade Evolution) > >>> > >>> Package: libslv2-dev > >>> > >>> Missing dependency. > >>> > >>> Caused by > >>> > >>> libgnutls-dev: > >>> Depends: libgnutls26 (=2.8.6-1) but 2.10.5-1+b1 is to be installed > >>> > >>> Hm? > >>> > >>> I guess I'll upgrade to testing ;). OTOH it's more important to have > >>> stable DAW. Does somebody use Debian testing for audio and MIDI? > >>> > >>> Should I avoid an upgrade? > >> I do use debian testing (not doing serious stuff these days though). > >> Debian testing is pretty stable, more stable then the latest Ubuntu > >> version in my experience. All though mixing stable with testing can > >> become a pain, mixing testing with unstable shouldn't give you much > >> troubles normally. > >> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=15612 > >> > >> The Debian Multimedia Team is doing most of the audio related packaging > >> for Debian. > >> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia > >> > >> For the latest audio software, Arch Linux doesn't give you much more > >> compared to Debian testing/ unstable in my experience. An advantage of > >> Debian is that there are more packages available. > >> > >> Regards, > >> \r > > Thank you :) > > > > to bad that I used Evolution before. I only upgraded Evolution, because > > Evolution isn't able to import even Emails from another Evolution :(. I > > needed a workaround and it seems to be, that using equal versions of > > Evolution is the best I can do. > > > > I'll upgrade to testing. If it doesn't work as reliable as needed, then > > I will reinstall stable. > > > > Regarding to reliability (if one gets payed for audio engineering), I > > don't trust any OS, using any software (just a personal point of view, I > > know that this opinion can lead to academic discussion ;). For home > > recording IMO it isn't fatal, if from time to time an app should crash. > > I just wanted to ensure, that Debian testing already is in a good shape. > > > > For me it's the same, "not doing serious stuff these days though", so > > I'll be venturesome ;). > Which software is more stable, old or recent software? When it comes to > audio software, I am sure Debian Testing is more stable then Debian > Stable, especially when we're moving further in time from the release > date of Debian Stable. > An other approach is to backport from Testing/ Unstable to Stable. This > is what AVLinux and (in the future) OpenDAW does. I don't have > experience with that situation. > > Regards, > \r A last time on-list for this thread ;). It's not wanted to write to distro specific on that list ;). I got mail off-list regarding to this, and I do understand this point of view. Pardon :)! Unfortunately isn't Debian users not the right place to ask about audio. So, again sorry. Back to the topic. Yes, you might be right, a lot of audio apps seems to become the more stable, the newer the release versions are. Even for versions from svn/git :). Thank you, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
