[Rosegarden-devel] calling people who know things about distributions!

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

I think our "getting" page would benefit from a nice table of major Linux 
distributions, with each row listing the latest version of Rosegarden in an 
official or mainstream package repository for that distro, and describing 
which repository that distro's users should get it from.  Bonus points if 
some or all of these can be queried automatically instead of needing to be 
maintained by hand.

What do you think?  Feasible?

So the question is -- what version of Rosegarden is the latest readily 
available in your favourite distro?  What repository (if that makes sense in 
the context of your distro) would you get it from?  And, most importantly, 
how would someone who wasn't actually using that distro find that out?

Vague example that probably bears improvement: Debian unstable contains 
Rosegarden 1.5.1.  A human being who doesn't use Debian could find this out 
from the page http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/rosegarden, by 
reading the <h1> text "Package: rosegarden (1:1.5.1-3)" and mentally 
discarding everything outside the parens, as well as the "1:" and "-3".  
(That would be a bit fragile to parse mechanically; is there a more 
computer-friendly alternative?)


Chris