[ubuntu-studio-devel] Packages up for removal, unless someone wants to maintain them

[Len Ovens]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Ross Gammon wrote:

> On 08/24/2015 10:22 AM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
>> It seems that jack-rack runs ok. I could start it up and load some
>> effects. No crashes for me yet, anyway.
>>
>> Considering that there is no alternative in the Ubuntu repos, I think we
>> should keep it at least for wily. So, I will ask for that to be kept.
>>
>
> I was just looking at a couple of bugs against zynjacku, and it turns
> out that this package was removed from Debian a while ago because it is
> buggy and abandoned upstream
> (https://packages.qa.debian.org/z/zynjacku/news/20131101T115337Z.html).
> The source code is not even where it used to be.
>
> Is this another package we should consider removing from Ubuntu?

Funny, zynjacku is the same as jackrack, but for lv2. That is, zynjacku 
provides the same function as jackrack. zynjacku for lv2 and jackrack for 
ladspa. The problem with lv2 applications/plugins is that the lv2 standard 
has changed. If this means zynjacku just doesn't work, it may be time to 
be rid of it. It has become easy to build an LV2 as both a plugin and as a 
standalone jack client. zynjacku should be tested.

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Len Ovens
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