why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

[Cassiel]

2009/3/30 Andreas Tille <tillea at rki.de>

> 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 release is
>> Squeeze, not Lenny.
>>
>
> There is backports.org which is a quite canonical place for people to seek
> for backports of Debian packages.  Several people do include it in their
> sources.list.  I'd prefer up to date packages there instead of "random"
> other
> locations (and yes I know that 64studio is no "random" location for
> multimedia
> experts - but obviosely there are Debian users who did not noticed it there
> ...)
>
> Kind regards
>
>      Andreas.


Ok, let's play.
Some multimedia users and experts would prefer not to use "unofficial"
debian repository and having ardour & rt kernel in the next stable release,
so now in testing.

ciao
r
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