why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Vincent,

|--==> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:31:38 +0100, Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr> said:

  VD> Grammostola Rosea wrote:
  >>I read this on the Debian multimedia mailinglist:
  >>>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.
  >>
  >>Please some reactions on this issue and I hope it can be solved! Would
  >>be great! :)

  VD> IMHO, the best thing to do in these cases is to prepare lenny backports of
  VD> the packages...
  VD> It is not as good as if the packages were in lenny, but it allows lenny users
  VD> to easily install the packages without switching to testing or waiting for
  VD> the next release.

A backport for Lenny is available in the 64 Studio repositories, see:

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia

Ciao!

Free