Rob,
It is really important to have packages available on the latest releases as soon as possible so that people who do have to keep the O/S upgraded, have some packages available right away. And as you already know, there are only so many partitions available to use for the operating systems so something has to give !!

AppImage is always available to run just about any where. BUT, I realize that as a programmer, the advantages of the package can be more desirable.  That said, ELIVE has the 3 latest Debian packages available (as announced on the News on the cinelerra-gg.org website) and Bullseye, version 11 package is at: 

https://repo.bullseye.elive.elivecd.org/pool/multimedia/c/

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 4:12 PM Rob Prowel via Cin <cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org> wrote:
On 10/8/23 07:14, Андрей Спицын via Cin wrote:
> Hello Phyllis and everyone,
>
> I've created a build farm for cinelerra deb and rpm packages. Although it
> is at an early stage of development, it can build packages on every git
> change in the main repo. Feel free to use these packages at
> https://github.com/einhander/cin-gg-packages/releases. Note that releases
> correspond to a build date, not a git commit date.
> Current build hosts are debian 12 and alma linux 8. I'm open to suggestions
> for a new distro and packages.

I'm always happy when folks create packages, and am sensitive to how
much work is involved.  As kind of a guiding principle, I hope that
packagers won't jump on the newest and latest distro kick when they
create packages, but will take a conservative approach and understand
that some of us would rather work on real stuff than spend all our time
upgrading the infinite number of dependencies things rely on.

I guess that's an underhanded way of stating "would love to see packaged
for debian-11". LOL



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