Hi, as one of the former main developers of LMMS I'd like to write a few words about LMMS and LADSPA. LMMS ships a bundle of LADSPA plugins in order to provide a standardized set of sound effects. Standardized means, the set is the same on every platform and distribution. When users create projects with LMMS and use our bundled plugins, it's guaranteed that the project will work and sound the same everywhere. If you decide to drop our plugins and depend on a package which formally provides the same file it can still happen that things are different and do not work as expected due to version differences.
Best example: CAPS LADSPA plugins. We have been shipping CAPS 0.4.x for years now and the available plugins and their behaviour remained stable for the users all the time. If you would depend on https://packages.debian.org/jessie/caps instead, lots of effects would be missing when loading a project as the available plugins inside CAPS have changed significantly between 0.4.x and 0.9.x. If you'd simply rename caps.so to caps-lmms.so no plugins would be loaded at all as the library base name (caps) is saved in the project file (internally we load caps.so, caps.dll or caps.dylib depending on the platform). If we (LMMS developers) decide to switch to 0.9.x we will implement an according upgrade mechanism internally (and probably even still provide CAPS 0.4.x in a separate library) so things don't break for the user. So please help us to provide an optimal user experience for LMMS users on Debian. Don't break LMMS by removing files from an LMMS installation even though I understand that redundancy is bad. If you have questions, feel free to ask. Best regards Toby
