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.