On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:21:25PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi Guix,
> 
> a while ago I noticed that the software provided by the “vmpk” package
> doesn’t work.  It is supposed to create a window displaying a MIDI
> keyboard that can be used to send MIDI messages to other applications
> via JACK, but it does nothing at all.  I tried to debug this but I
> cannot seem to find the cause.
> 
> Now that we have “jack-keyboard”, which works just fine, I’m thinking
> about just removing “vmpk”.  What do you think?  Any objections?

I don't have any opinions about vmpk, but I think it would be good to
ask upstream for advice about the buggy behaviour, if there is active
upstream maintenance.

But, I know that means doing more work for a package you don't need
anymore. So I understand if you prefer to remove the package.

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