[LAU] Ubuntu Studio

[Rick Green]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Simon Wise wrote:

> On 19/03/12 05:16, Rick Green wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Julien Claassen wrote:
>
>> The daily build is built for AMD_64 only, the final release, as well as the
>> Beta1 (March 1st) will be available for several other architectures as 
>> well.
>> I just booted yesterday's daily build on my laptop. jack started up 
>> readily, as
>> well as Ardour. The Ardour release is 2.8.2, with a copyright date of 2009.
>> Current release is 2.8.12 (sept 2011), so it looks like the debian & ubuntu
>> packagers haven't kept up...
>
> Debian is up to date ...
>
> ardour 1:2.8.12-1 testing         ftp.iinet.net.au
> ardour 1:2.8.12-1 sid             ftp.iinet.net.au
>
>
> even stable (squeeze, which has been out for a long time) is:
>
> ardour 1:2.8.11-3 stable          ftp.iinet.net.au
>
> so I don't know where Ubuntu Studio gets theirs from, but it is much older 
> than the versions in Debian ... I would expect a new Debian based distro to 
> be based off sid and testing (i.e. wheezy).
>
  My bad eyes.  It was 2.8.12, not .2.  ...but the copywrite notice does 
say 1999-2009.  Why wouldn't he update that as well?

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Rick Green

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