Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important Tags: ftbfs patch X-Debbugs-Cc: bill-au...@programmer.net
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the 'freeewheeling' package: * Package name : freeewheeling Version : 0.6.4-1.1 Upstream Author : bill-auger <bill-au...@programmer.net> * URL : http://freewheeling.sourceforge.net * License : GPL2+ * Vcs : https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/freewheeling.git Section : sound It builds those binary packages: freewheeling - live looping musical instrument To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: https://mentors.debian.net/package/freewheeling/ Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/freewheeling/freewheeling_0.6.4-1.1.dsc Changes since the last upload: * support fluidsynth2 (Closes: #946863) * fix thread-count race condition during memory-manager init * enable pckeyboard interface NOTES: note that the two additional patches are not strictly necessary, WRT the RC bug; but they are rather important, and are taken from the current upstream sources - upgrading to the current upstream version would also fix the RC bug; but it was suggested to me, that back-porting the important changes onto the existing debian sources, would increase the chances of finding a sponsor this program has been broken in debain since fluidsynth v1 was dropped - i am the upstream maintainer; and i normally build .deb packages on OBS; so it would not be much extra effort to mind the debian package, if help is needed - at the suggestion of the debian-mia team, i have also filed a ITS bug (#981633), for in case the debian maintainer does not respond at this time, help is clearly needed - the RC bug (#946863), including a proposed patch to fix it, is over a year old, with no acknowlegment by the maintainer - FWIW, support for fluidsynth2 was added upstream, nearly a year before that became a problem affecting debian - about one month after fluidsynth v1 was dropped from debian, the debian-multimedia team put the packaging under salsa VCS, and prepared the current upstream release; which included the changes needed for debian-fitness, and made the BTS patch unnecessary - the package is not team mainatined though; and they did not do an NMU, assuming that the maintainer (who is also on the debian-multimedia team) would do it - unfortunately, that did not happen though; and the package was dropped from [testing] this week; which is what prompted me to act now
