Bits from the Release Team: What should go into squeeze?

[Felipe Sateler]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:54, Adrian Knoth <adi at drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 02:42:04PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>> How is the state of affairs wrt jack? If we want jack2 for squeeze, we
>> should communicate this ASAP!
>
> Let's put it this way: we know that jackd1 is stable, so it qualifies
> for a release.
>
> If we vote against jackd2, we're missing SMP enabled audio processing
> and jackdbus. Nothing really important, but users might want to use it
> in a few months, e.g. for ladish.
>
> If we go for jackd2, I still have to push some FFADO changes to jackd2's
> firewire backend and fix the manpage issue. Simple stuff, one hour of
> work.
>
> I don't have strong feelings for either version.
>
>
> From the amount of testing, I'd vote for jackd1, from a feature
> perspective, I'd go for jackd2.
>
> So whoever is concerned, please share your opinion. ;)

I would think that at this stage of Linux audio, trying to do pro
audio with a stable release of debian is nuts. On the other hand, for
casual use of jack, a more stable version would be preferred over a
more featureful one. So I would go with jack1 for squeeze.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler