On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:40:54AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> * Package name : kmid > Version : 2.2.2 > Upstream Author : Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <p...@users.sf.net> > * URL : http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KMid?content=116404 I think that's the right URL: http://kmid2.sourceforge.net/ I've recently been in contact with the author, because we pack his kmidimon in the Debian Multimedia Team. To quote from his mail: > > By the way: KMidimon 0.7.3 requires Drumstick 0.3.0, which is still > > bundled in kmidimon's source tarball and statically linked if the > > shared libraries weren't found at configure time. In the future, > > when Drumstick matures enough, the library sources will be removed > > from the source package. Please talk and coordinate if necessary > > with the maintainers of KMetronome and KMid2, using Drumstick as > > well. Are there Debian packages for them? With regard to drumstick, he wrote: > BTW. I've fixed two problems in Drumstick 0.3.1, released yesterday. > Probably any of them would become a bug report for KMidimon 0.7.3: > 1. Subscribe/unsubscribe methods from the MidiPort class are using the > ALSA function snd_seq_parse_address(), and can't distinguish between > two client names starting with the same characters, like "KMid" and > "KMidimon". It is not possible to use KMidimon to monitor KMid output. > 2. The list of available MIDI input/output ports is cached by > drumstick until a broadcasted ALSA event is received marking the cache > as "dirty". It is possible that a client application like KMidimon > shows an outdated list to the user. > Both problems have been fixed in drumstick revision 165: > http://drumstick.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/drumstick?view=rev&revision=165 > The best solution for a dynamically linked program would be to simply > upgrade the drumstick library. But as Debian is distributing a > statically compiled KMidimon, please apply preventively a patch > before the next KMidimon release. In other words: it's now the right time to package drumstick separately and change the build requirements for kmidimon. Do you mind packaging drumstick? I'm also Cc pkg-multimedia-maintainers, perhaps somebody is interested. Don't know if you do a lot of multimedia stuff, if so, you might want to consider joining our team. ;) Cheerio -- mail: a...@thur.de http://adi.thur.de PGP/GPG: key via keyserver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100422141044.gl12...@ltw.loris.tv
