Dear debian-devel, we, the maintainers of soundfont packages in Debian, i.e. currently mostly Thorsten Glaser <tg> and myself, would like to propose the introduction of two additional virtual packages:
sf2-soundfont-gm
sf3-soundfont-gm
Background: There is currently no default location defined for (General
MIDI compatible) soundfonts in Debian, so applications or libraries
rendering MIDI music with soundfonts need to be explicitely provided a
soundfont location, e.g. [1]. We want to fix this and provide a default
soundfont in the two most common formats (i.e. SF2, and SF3 which is
the same as SF2 but with OGG-Vorbis compressed samples).
This will require
(1) packages containing soundfonts to add "Provides: sf2-soundfont-gm,
sf3-soundfont-gm" (depending on the actual format) and registering an
alternative for the files /usr/share/sounds/sf[23]/default.sf[23] in
debian/postinst (as well as corresponding removal boilerplate in
debian/prerm).
(2) packages containing libraries or applications that use soundfonts
for MIDI rendering (e.g. fluidsynth) to fall back to use these default
soundfonts.
Some more background and motivation can be found in [1] and [2].
I hope nobody objects!
Cheers,
- Fabian
(please keep me in CC, I am not subscribed to -devel)
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929185
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920373
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