[PD-dev] updating 'puredata' package to 0.42.5

[Chris McCormick]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:48:44AM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Chris McCormick wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 06:10:34PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>>> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>>> It seems that Günter is no longer updating the 'puredata' package,  so I
>>>> wanted to start the process of updating it.  I am working on  becoming a
>>>> Debian Maintainer, so I can get direct upload access.  This is what I
>>>> would like to address: - improved puredata.desktop for file associations,
>>>> etc.  - built against Tcl/Tk 8.5
>>>
>>> We don't need the «puredata» package, because we have the «pd- extended»
>>> package, and that's enough for essentially everybody.
>>
>> Maybe I am misunderstanding something, but if this is a question of  being
>> able to apt-get install vanilla Pd under Debian GNU/Linux, I would like to
>> have that option rather than only having the option to install pd-extended.
>
> The 'puredata' package is already in Debian and Ubuntu and has been for a
> while.  That's pd-vanilla.

Oh! I assumed that that was the 'puredata' package you were referring to which
Günter is no longer updating. Sorry for the misunderstanding, carry on.

Chris.

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