[00:24] <Eickmeyer> teward: It officially replaces it, yes. a2jmidid has been abandoned, so this is logically picking it up.
[00:27] <Eickmeyer> a2jmidid is a very key component of Ubuntu Studio.
[00:27] <Eickmeyer> It's essentially the daemon that links midi devices to Jack.
[01:08] <studiobot> <teward001> @Eickmeyer well if they're forks but ownership hasn't really transferred it sounds like a2jmidid-ng is the proper package name.
[01:08] <studiobot> <teward001> but that's a Debian call
[01:08] <studiobot> <teward001> which reminds me i need a sponsor for a package up there in their NEW
[01:08] <Eickmeyer> Right. That's why I think we might have to leave this to Ross.
[06:21] <OvenWerks> Eickmeyer: https://lists.linuxaudio.org/archives/linux-audio-announce/2019-September/002726.html
[06:22] <OvenWerks> From this ^^ I would suggest ownership has shifted.
[06:24] <OvenWerks> Nedko hasn't been active for some time now.
[06:24] <OvenWerks> There is no "forked" commit or changelog entry.
[18:34] <Eickmeyer> @teward001: read OvenWerks above. It's shifted.
[22:22] <OvenWerks> Eickmeyer: are we missing a backdrop file?
[22:23] <Eickmeyer> OvenWerks: We shouldn't be?
[22:23] <OvenWerks> from the iso build log: dh_install: ubuntustudio-wallpapers missing files: usr/share/backgrounds/ubuntustudio/ubuntustudio_eoam_ermine.png
[22:23] <Eickmeyer> Oh, I fixed that.
[22:23] <OvenWerks> ok
[22:24] <Eickmeyer> Reuploaded, rebuilt.
[22:27] <OvenWerks> so I should dl the iso n try it out.
[22:27] <Eickmeyer> I think the new one is built, so yeah.
[22:28] <Eickmeyer> I'm likely to ppa-purge the machine I'm on right now and upgrade.
[22:28] <OvenWerks> yikes!!
[22:30] <Eickmeyer> Oh, it's standard procedure. Remove the backports PPA(s) to allow it to upgrade properly.
[22:37] <OvenWerks> lots of changes since my last dl 72.%
[22:37] <OvenWerks> wow kubuntu is 54%
[22:39] <OvenWerks> do get the LAU mailing list?
[22:40] <Eickmeyer> I do not.
[22:48] <OvenWerks> falktx has a new jackd2 coming soon with meta data working properly. After the next release he is expecting to add the a2jmidid stuff directly into jackd2... after which we won't need a2jmidid any more.
[22:48] <OvenWerks> There is hope the a2j version of jackd2 might make it into the stream in time for 20.04 but...
[22:50] <OvenWerks> There is also plans to add zita-ajbridging into jackd2 as well. I do not know if that will make it so we don't need zita-ajbridge any more or if that will need to be loaded at jackd start time... in which case we eould still need it for hot plugging.
[22:52] <Eickmeyer> That would be nice, and I hope he can release before 20.04.
[22:52] <OvenWerks> well there will be one release for sure in the next month or so.
[22:53] <OvenWerks> the rest I don't know, it takes time to get through debian depending on where they are in their cycle.
[23:34] <Eickmeyer> Yeah. Shouldn't take too long. They're still pretty early in the release cycle for the next one.