Ardour 5.0

Jaromír Mikeš mira.mikes at gmail.com
Sun Aug 28 12:19:21 UTC 2016


2016-08-26 21:18 GMT+02:00 IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)
<umlaeute at debian.org>:
> On 08/26/2016 09:24 AM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
>> 2016-08-15 22:13 GMT+02:00 Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com>:

>>> ardour 5.0 has been released. I tried download source for updating,
>>> but getting only empty tarball.
>>> Anybody knows whats can be wrong?
>>>
>>> https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/tags
>>>
>>> Last working tag seems to be 5.0-pre0 :(
>>
>> ardour 5.1 is out ... I still don't have a idea how get a tarball :(
>
> indeed the github download seems to be very broken.
> it seems that this is intentional (at least that is how i interpret the
> line `/* export-ignore` in .gitattributes¹).
> i guess this is to force people to download via the ardour website².
> ...

ok ..

> actually i just checked the commit message on .gitattributes, and it
> seems that the reason is technical by nature: the build-system in git
> Depends on `git desscribe` working (something which we would patch away
> in Debian but which of course is inconvenient for "ordinary" users of
> the source exports)

ok ..

> anyhow, i just fetched the upstream tarball and ran gbp-import-orig on it.
> it should be possible (and possibly simple) to hack the d/watch to run
> the actual download from the official download site, and use github only
> as an announcement channel to check for new releases.
> since robin is a both a major contributor to ardour these days and a DM
> in our team, he might be able to shed some light (and code)...

I am copying Robin to help us make decision.

best regards

mira



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