2015-09-21 14:44 GMT+02:00 IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) <umlae...@debian.org>: > On 2015-09-14 23:09, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: >> Hi Alessio, Jonas, others >> >> I jumped in to updating hydrogen-drumkits package ... I updated it and >> realize that it is really huge! :( ... About 250MB >> I think something so big doesn't make sense distribute in debian. >> >> What we should do with it? >> >> 1) Ask the upstream to make just "basic" collection of drumkits ( e.g. >> about 20MB ) package it and let users download whatever they want from >> internet? >> >> 2) Create package which wouldn't contain drumkits itselfs but only >> script for downloading and installing drumkits? >> >> 3) Other solution? >> > > so after i tried contacting artemiy pavlov (the first address already > bounced; the 2nd has now bounced as well but at least with a hint where > to contact him), i re-read the hydrogen homeage, where it say:
Yes contacting all this authors and asking for clarifying copyright would be awful task :( >> These libraries can also be downloaded and installed from within >> Hydrogen. Goto Instruments -> Import Library. Hit Update list', >> select the library you want to install and click the Download and >> install' button. I didn't know about this function myself ... :( > launching up hydrogen and doing as suggested, indeed reveals that the > hydrogen itself already comes with all the downloader functionality > suggested by you in (2). > > this basically lowers my energy a bit to provide anything complicated > within Debian... > > the incestive to keep a hydrogen-drumkits around would be > i think that main reason for a Debian package would be to provide a > verified-to-be-free set of drumkits and to provide a drumkit to start > playing with (but i think the latter is not so important as hydrogen can > also use GM - which sounds cheesy but provides at least something) hydrogen package ( not hydrogen-drumkits ) install GMkit and TR808EmulationKit So the question is ... Do we need hydrogen-drumkits package? I think it would be great to have it but not in given circumstances ... problematic copyrights and hardly contactable authors. Also upstream tarball release would make things easer. mira _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
