[LAD] distros migrating to JACK2?

[Philipp]

Excerpts from Ralf Mardorf's message of 2010-04-18 11:01:41 +0200:
> Ok Marije, Arnold, Philipp :)
> 
> programs don't depend to the development files, so I perceive that they 
> should be separated.
> Today for 64 Studio 3.0-beta3 = Ubuntu Hardy we do have a package jackd 
> including /usr/bin/jackd.
> A package jackdbus including nothing but copyright, TODO etc..
> A package libjack0, including /usr/lib/libjack.so.
> A package libjack0.100.0-0, including nothing but copyright, TODO etc..
> A package libjack-dev, including the headers.
> A package libjack0.100.0-dev, including nothing but copyright, TODO etc..
> And than there are the libjackserver packages, IIRC there aren't such 
> packages for Karmic.
> 
> Again, I'm using JACK2, I prefer JACK2, I won't have any issues when 
> JACK2 will become default for all distros, but other people might like 
> to keep JACK1. Because at the moment JACK1 is default for some distros, 
> I know the troubles, when I changed to JACK2 or when I just compiled the 
> current version of JACK1, like I did for Karmic, fortunately my 
> favourite distro already ships with JACK2.
> 
> For Karmic I've got 5 dummy packages and one package that really is needed.
> 
> $ ls /media/disk/usr/src/dummy-packages
> jackd_0.118.0_all.deb     libjack0.100.0-0_0.118.0_all.deb    
> libjack-dev_0.118.0_all.deb
> libjack0_0.118.0_all.deb  libjack0.100.0-dev_0.118.0_all.deb
> $ ls /media/disk/usr/src/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.118.0/*.deb
> /media/disk/usr/src/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.118.0/jack-audio-connection-kit_0.118.0-1_i386.deb
> 
> For Suse I don't know how to build dummy packages, first I ignored the 
> broken dependencies when doing upgrades, then I have had enough and 
> installed the regular packages, deleted all files and build the version 
> of JACK I wish to have.
> 
> I don't understand the reason why this can't be changed.
> 
> 2 Cents,
> Ralf

I don't really know, nor care, about debian specific packaging stuff.
What I know is that it has a record of being broken.
Here's an article where some of the technicalities are discussed in the
comments: http://ardour.org/node/2543

Philipp