[LAU] Is Debian testing for audio and MIDI already in good shape?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 10:38 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 10:16 +0200, rosea grammostola wrote:
> > On 06/02/2011 10:06 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 09:43 +0200, rosea.grammostola wrote:
> > >> On 06/02/2011 04:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > >>> Repositories: All 'regular' Debian stable + debian-multimedia stable,
> > >>> excepted of Evolution + dependencies ;) (I could downgrade Evolution)
> > >>>
> > >>> Package: libslv2-dev
> > >>>
> > >>> Missing dependency.
> > >>>
> > >>> Caused by
> > >>>
> > >>> libgnutls-dev:
> > >>>     Depends: libgnutls26 (=2.8.6-1) but 2.10.5-1+b1 is to be installed
> > >>>
> > >>> Hm?
> > >>>
> > >>> I guess I'll upgrade to testing ;). OTOH it's more important to have
> > >>> stable DAW. Does somebody use Debian testing for audio and MIDI?
> > >>>
> > >>> Should I avoid an upgrade?
> > >> I do use debian testing (not doing serious stuff these days though).
> > >> Debian testing is pretty stable, more stable then the latest Ubuntu
> > >> version in my experience. All though mixing stable with testing can
> > >> become a pain, mixing testing with unstable shouldn't give you much
> > >> troubles normally.
> > >> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=15612
> > >>
> > >> The Debian Multimedia Team is doing most of the audio related packaging
> > >> for Debian.
> > >> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia
> > >>
> > >> For the latest audio software, Arch Linux doesn't give you much more
> > >> compared to Debian testing/ unstable in my experience. An advantage of
> > >> Debian is that there are more packages available.
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> \r
> > > Thank you :)
> > >
> > > to bad that I used Evolution before. I only upgraded Evolution, because
> > > Evolution isn't able to import even Emails from another Evolution :(. I
> > > needed a workaround and it seems to be, that using equal versions of
> > > Evolution is the best I can do.
> > >
> > > I'll upgrade to testing. If it doesn't work as reliable as needed, then
> > > I will reinstall stable.
> > >
> > > Regarding to reliability (if one gets payed for audio engineering), I
> > > don't trust any OS, using any software (just a personal point of view, I
> > > know that this opinion can lead to academic discussion ;). For home
> > > recording IMO it isn't fatal, if from time to time an app should crash.
> > > I just wanted to ensure, that Debian testing already is in a good shape.
> > >
> > > For me it's the same, "not doing serious stuff these days though", so
> > > I'll be venturesome ;).
> > Which software is more stable, old or recent software? When it comes to 
> > audio software, I am sure  Debian Testing is more stable then Debian 
> > Stable, especially when we're moving further in time from the release 
> > date of Debian Stable.
> > An other approach is to backport from Testing/ Unstable to Stable. This 
> > is what AVLinux and (in the future) OpenDAW does. I don't have 
> > experience with that situation.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > \r
> 
> A last time on-list for this thread ;). It's not wanted to write to
> distro specific on that list ;). I got mail off-list regarding to this,
> and I do understand this point of view. Pardon :)! 

> Unfortunately isn't
> Debian users not the right place to ask about audio.

a typo, double negative, haha ... quiet now

> So, again sorry.
> 
> Back to the topic. Yes, you might be right, a lot of audio apps seems to
> become the more stable, the newer the release versions are. Even for
> versions from svn/git :).
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Ralf