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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:23:03PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:55, Adrian Knoth <adi at drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:20:17AM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:

>>> On the other hand, for casual use of jack, a more stable version 
>>> would be preferred over a more featureful one.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this is only half of the story. For the occasional use 
>> of jack, jackd2 is easier to use, because it can suspend pulseaudio.
>>
>> In the jackd1 case, the user needs to shutdown pulseaudio or any 
>> other application blocking the soundcard. d.
>
>Ah, that is a good for jack2.

Yeah - it lowers the bar of using "pro" audio.

One part of the "pro" is that it is too complex to get started for 
ordinary humans - like a school music teacher and her pupils.  Would be 
terrific if they could get going more easily - even if "too old" for 
actual music professionals.


>>> So I would go with jack1 for squeeze.
>>
>> I'm completely undecided. Whenever I write "Ok, let's stick to jackd1 
>> and upgrade in squeeze-and-a-half if need be", I remember that at 
>> least Free, Jonas and me are using jackd2 for quite some time, so why 
>> not switch immediately... ;)
>
>Also, if my understanding is correct, jack2 is ABI compatible with 
>jack1, so no library transition is needed.

That was my impression too.  If so, why don't we ship *both*?

Let's rename jackd → jackd1, package jackd2, and let both binary 
packages provide jackd as a virtual package.


  - Jonas

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