<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.18.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> thanks for your help.  will definitely try out the new packages once they are in the Hardy repos. peace, w On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 15:05 +0100, Khashayar Naderehvandi wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Dear all, I am happy to announce that Ardour 2.7.1 has been accepted for backporting to Hardy as well as Intrepid [1]. It should end up in the appropriate repos anytime soon. This is hopefully the beginning of a more active backporting effort within Ubuntu Studio. It seemed important to me to get this particular package through to start with, as it's one of the most important ones in a DAW context. If there are packages that you want to see backported, please let me know and I'll try to get the ball rolling. Just remember that libraries and such (e.g. jack) won't be backported. Just a couple of weeks back, I was a regular user who needed up-to-date packages. I started looking into how I could build the jaunty packages locally for myself. But why not share, when the packages are built, I thought. After an email to this list, I was invited to work more closely with the dev group. The step from "using" to "sharing" is small, and the step from "sharing" to working more officially was smaller than I thought. I've realized that it's not too hard to make a difference. In fact, the easiest thing one could do, which would nevertheless be a very big help to us all, is testing. We have a release ahead of us that will hopefully be worth upgrading to, from both hardy and intrepid. But like said, to make that happen, we will need testers :-) All the best from your dedicated backportman, Khashayar [1] <A HREF="https://bugs.launchpad.net/hardy-backports/+bug/299287">https://bugs.launchpad.net/hardy-backports/+bug/299287</A> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>