On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Hi again,
same, > Am Dienstag, den 10.10.2017, 17:41 +0200 schrieb Thorsten Glaser: > > What if they decide to stop shipping it? > > then we would proceed as we did for the previous soundfont they > provided, i.e. timgm6mb-soundfont. That is, we would continue to > package it in its own source package. Yes, as you argued later on in your eMail. > .o(On the other hand, musescore requires a soundfont to be installed in > order to work, so why should they ever stop shipping one? In that case, They could switch to a different one, is what I meant. (or embed it in the C source… *shudder*) > > Yes, but, I’m a MuseScore user, and so really really *really* wish > > to not prevent getting a newer version. > > I don't think the soundfont is to blame for the slow adaption of > musescore 2.0 in Debian. It was just the usual packaging glue. ;) No, I got a .dsc from Toby way before it entered Debian, which worked with only the most minor tweaks (it *was* intended for his PPA), and the soundfont slowed getting it uploaded to Debian by quite a bit. I hope I’ll be able to speed things up in the future now, though. I was a new to-be-a-user-soon back then only learning of its existence by a workshop a fellow choir member gave. > If future problems arise with the soundfont, we will package it in its > own source package and upload new musescore releases to experimental in Exactly. Good that we’re on the same page. > > I can do that, but thanks. > > Cool, thank you! Uploaded, should enter NEW any time now. bye, //mirabilos -- «MyISAM tables -will- get corrupted eventually. This is a fact of life. » “mysql is about as much database as ms access” – “MSSQL at least descends from a database” “it's a rebranded SyBase” “MySQL however was born from a flatfile and went downhill from there” – “at least jetDB doesn’t claim to be a database” ‣‣‣ Please, http://deb.li/mysql and MariaDB, finally die! _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
