On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:37 AM, IOhannes zmölnig zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
Am 03. Dezember 2014 03:20:49 MEZ, schrieb katja katjavetter@gmail.com:
Following IOhannes' guidelines in an earlier thread I built the .deb packages from jessie source. That works great, but still it's quite a detour and in particular for new users there should be an easier way to get pd working properly on Raspberry Pi.
How about making your .deb available via apt.puredata.info?
A decent backport available from a logical place would be most convenient indeed. So far I was unable to build it with gpg verification. Also it's not a single .deb but a set of seven, which must be installed with dpkg. Package managers like apt-get, gdebi, Synaptic will pull 0.43 core, gui etcetera as puredata dependencies when you're on wheezy. This could probably be solved by editing dependency specs in debian/control, but still it would be confusing to have those .debs on the apt.puredata.info/releases list, since many people download from there manually. Maybe if there would be something like apt.puredata.info/backports/raspbian_wheezy?
There's no wheezy-backports in the Raspbian archive (due to lack of human resources). Raspbian maintainers try to stay close to wheezy but pull in from sid or make their own modifications if necessary (see:http://elinux.org/Raspbian). This brings me to another idea: if we (I mean Pd community) verify that puredata 0.46.2 is to be preferred over 0.43 for Raspberry Pi, they could pull in puredata 0.46.2 for wheezy. In the meantime could upload my unofficial backport somewhere to facilitate testing.
Katja