Hello, I have looked at some orphaned packages ( cgi-scripts ITR later, sysutils ITA) and was considering playmidi too. My problem is the following :
- Playmidi is still used by some people (I made a mini-survey on debian-french) but it seems that the main cause of its use is the straightforward name of the package : when one looks for a program which *plays midi* files, the result is obvious; - There are numerous pending bugs, but upstream dependant; - There is an alternative --- timidity --- that is: * equal or more free ; * does the same or more things ; * IIRC more actively under development ; * heaviest because it does software emulation ; * but then also hardware independant. One of the problem is that the name is definitively less obvious. So my question : what is Debian-qa team's policy about this ? Do you prefer to have less packages, but the *best* (freeness, usefullness, actively maintained and developed ---I personnaly prefer a usefull non-free one to a useless absolutely free beast), or do you think that we must have the largest choice, each package being maintained as good as it can be? Cheers, -- Thierry LARONDE [EMAIL PROTECTED] website : http://www.polynum.com
