There was some work done by the Ubuntu Studio team for this, but I'm not sure how much of it was actually realized (adding tags to applications that didn't have them). Might be worth a shot to connect with them about that.
Any universal packaging changes should be done in Debian directly, though. Most packages in the Ubuntu Universe repo are directly imported from Debian. Canonical does some changes to core packages only - such as Pulseaudio.
On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 12:22 PM Roman Haefeli reduzent@gmail.com wrote:
Yesterday, I discovered that you cannot install "Pure Data" with the default graphical "Software" manager on Ubuntu status.
It looks like the vanilla (non-terminal) way of installing software on Ubuntu (at least 20.04) is the graphical application gnome-software. gnome-software works like an app store and apparently also manages snaps and other formats. However, the list of available applications is curated and "Pure Data" is not part of it. It doesn't appear in the section "Audio & Video" nor in the section "Development tools". Even specifically searching for "Pure Data" or "puredata" doesn't yield any results. That's not exactly good advertisement! People either have to install 'synaptic' - which is a graphical frontend for apt - or use the terminal to the install the 'puredata' package.
Yet, I'm not sure how this is addressed. But I think we should address it.
Someone on #ubuntu posted this link when I asked about the process of including software in the curated list:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/
Roman
On Wed, 2022-04-06 at 09:32 +0200, Robert Grah wrote:
Gerat news! Thank You!
---- Am Di, 05 Apr 2022 23:35:37 +0200 Roman Haefeli < reduzent@gmail.com> schrieb ----
Hi
I added the current version of Pure Data to my personal package
archive
(PPA), so that it is finally possible to get a recent version of
Pd on
Ubuntu without compiling.
Kudos goes to IOhannes who maintains the puredata package on
Debian and
who makes sure that the most recent release of Pd is available in
the
backports repository. His work enabled me to just¹ get his package sources and push them to my PPA.
I also rewrote the "How to install on Debian/Ubuntu" FAQ page on puredata.into who was referring to the retired apt.puredata.info
repo
and Pd-extended.
You find instructions on how to get the most recent version of Pd
on
Debian and on Ubuntu here:
https://puredata.info/docs/faq/debian
Roman
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