Re: [LMMS-devel] Migration of git From Sourceforge to github

[Jonathan A. <eag...@gm...>]

I can but I wont even bother with down stream ubuntu as they pull their
stuff from debian, I would just need to monitor to make sure things get
updated for new releases. It will be some time i think though before I am
ready.


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Israel <isr...@gm...> wrote:

>  @Jonathon Aquilina
> Are you looking to take over Debian packaging?  That would be great!
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> On 01/10/2014 07:45 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
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> I am learning to package it so I could potentially take over maintaining
> it once I get used to packaging
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> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Israel <isr...@gm...> wrote:
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>> Yes, for some distros (Arch) that always allow bleeding edge releases.
>> No, for some distros (Ubuntu) that always prefer stable applications.
>> The Debian maintainer for LMMS was MIA last I knew, so Debian will be
>> stuck at 0.4.10 until someone can update it.
>> Ubuntu specific:
>> When a new release of LMMS comes out, it will automatically be checked
>> out by launchpad when I point the package to look at the GitHub stable
>> branch.  So when the next release comes along, if it is before feature
>> freeze, I can get the new version into Ubuntu.  If a new version comes
>> along after a release, you will have to use/make a ppa.  ESPECIALLY for
>> LTS.  Those are *very* hard to get new packages in, although possible,
>> but usually only security fixes (with exception to certain programs,
>> like Firefox)
>>
>>  > Excellent! Will the distro package maintainers be able to keep up
>> with > this? (Will the distros let them?) - d.
>>
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