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

[Ralf Mardorf]

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 ;).

Regards,

Ralf