dpkg-buildpackage

2009-04-21 Thread cassiel
Hi you all, don't know if this could be regarded as off topic, however it involves debian package building system. I am trying to build gdal libraries with ECW support ( http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/ECW) because this compression format is not enabled in the standard package. I downloaded ECW

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-31 Thread Cassiel
2009/3/31 Felipe Sateler > > BTW, ardour migrated to testing yesterday. Very happy end user here :-) thought I am not the only one I guess Thanks to everybody involved r

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-30 Thread Cassiel
2009/3/30 Andreas Tille > On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > You don't seem to understand the Debian release policy. Once a stable >> version has been released, there is zero chance that another package will be >> added. The only chance for ardour to be part of a stable Debian rele

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-03-29 Thread Cassiel
2009/3/28 Andreas Tille > On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Cassiel wrote: > > debian stable aims to production servers, >> > > That's wrong. Debian stable aims at production systems. If your > arguing would be true I wonder why stable contains applications like > Op

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-03-28 Thread Cassiel
2009/3/28 Grammostola Rosea > >> > I asked an guy who did some work on the RT kernel for Ubuntu. This is what > he said: > > 1) Ubuntu RT kernel don't offer the same guarantees that offer one of >> the Debian kernels. For example DOS vulnerabilities are accepted into >> Ubuntu RT Kernel (because

Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-26 Thread Cassiel
2009/3/26 Giacomo A. Catenazzi > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> >>> Any idea how much effort would it take to integrae it into the existing >>> Debian linux-2.6 package? >>> >> >> Zero chance. The RT kernel is no plaything. The RT changes ar

Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-26 Thread Cassiel
2009/3/26 Tzafrir Cohen > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 03:08:07PM +0100, Cassiel wrote: > > > When talking about RT kernel only one patch comes into play -->> > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/ > > That's a huge patch. > > Any idea how

Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-26 Thread Cassiel
2009/3/26 Tzafrir Cohen > I'm trying to follow this thread, but I'm not sure everybody here even > using the same terminology. > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 02:01:22PM +0100, Cassiel wrote: > > Hi > > > > 2009/3/26 Adrian Knoth > > > > > On W

Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-26 Thread Cassiel
Hi 2009/3/26 Adrian Knoth > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:05:32PM +0100, Grammostola Rosea wrote: > > > The problem is an realtime kernel and a proper configuration for music > > production. Without that, you better stay away from music production > > Not really. I absolutely have no problems with

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

2009-03-25 Thread Cassiel
2009/3/25 Julien Cristau > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 12:58 +0100, Grammostola Rosea wrote: > > > 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