Getting MuseScore 0.9.5 in Ubuntu 9.10

[David Bolton]

Binary package hint: mscore

alecspoons reports: http://www.musescore.org/en/node/3481#comment-8538

"I'm using Karmic and I first got Musescore 0.9.4 from the normal repositories before adding
http://ppa.launchpad.net/mscore-ubuntu/mscore-stable/ubuntu
which then let me upgrade to 0.9.5."

Is it possible to get 0.9.5 in the normal repositories? 0.9.5 was released mid August.

[Toby Smithe (tsmithe)]

Hi David,

2009/11/18 David Bolton <email address hidden>:
> Is it possible to get 0.9.5 in the normal repositories? 0.9.5 was released mid August.

Apologies for my tardiness on these issues, and many thanks for your
time; I'm currently in the process of applying to university, and
that's necessarily eating much of my previously free time: obviously,
I want to make a good application.

As for the problem of 0.9.5 in 9.10, it seems unlikely that 0.9.5 can
be included into the standard repositories, to which updates are
normally only made to fix bugs (without introducing features, which
may themselves have new bugs) or close security holes. I suppose it
could be technically feasible to backport hundreds of fixes from 0.9.5
to 0.9.4, but I do not think, considering the situation, that there is
much merit to that.

As it is, 0.9.5 is not in karmic as I could not find a sponsor for
Debian in time for it to enter Debian unstable before the Ubuntu
archive froze. The difficulty in finding an available developer to
sponsor my packages is always frustrating; in the medium term, I would
of course be seeking Debian Developer status myself, but for the same
reasons as above, that's not really doable right now. The alternative
is to push the packages directly into Ubuntu first, but that would
potentially require later unnecessary work to reconcile the two
package branches.

To compensate, a middle-of-the-road solution is to get an updated
package into the ubuntu-backports repository. Naturally, that would
require users to add that repository to their systems, but the process
for that is less roundabout than adding the mscore-stable repository,
where 0.9.5 is as you know already available.

I hope this answers the question satisfactorily, I hope I soon am able
to find a chunk of time to attend to mscore packaging matters, but I
do also hope that you understand my situation.

Best regards,

--
Toby Smithe :: http://fulltinreality.com

[David Bolton (davidkbolton)]

No, that is fine. Anything upstream can help with in the future?

Best of luck with your university applications. Thanks for your work sharing MuseScore with the free world :)

[Toby Smithe (tsmithe)]

2009/11/19 David Bolton <email address hidden>:
> No, that is fine. Anything upstream can help with in the future?

Yes, but really that is the subject of another conversation; outlined,
it would be nice if, at release time, the html/css/image sources used
to build the PDF manuals (ie, simply the stuff that is pulled via
ProcessHTML.py) could be put into the release source tarball; or, if
that is undesirable, into a separate tarball. But, that is not related
to this bug, and so I will leave it there and follow up with my
rationale in a separate e-mail to the dev list shortly.

> Best of luck with your university applications. Thanks for your work
> sharing MuseScore with the free world :)

Thank you, but I am of course more in your debt than you are in mine.

Regards,

--
Toby Smithe :: http://fulltinreality.com

[David Bolton (davidkbolton)]

I added the handbook sources to SVN. For details see http://n2.nabble.com/Handbook-sources-td4043803.html#a4043803

[Toby Smithe (tsmithe)]

Ok; I'm going to mark this as "Invalid" now, as it's unlikely that 0.9.5 will ever get into the universe repository for karmic. However, there is, of course, the mscore-stable PPA, which you referenced in the original report. As I wrote on the mailing list, 0.9.6 should be in Lucid and Debian Squeeze, which is most certainly an improvement, and as pisa has been uploaded into Debian, the 0.9.6 package should provide offline manuals as well.