Re: RFS: zynaddsubfx
Bas Wijnen wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:01:30PM -0500, Barry deFreese wrote: Barry deFreese wrote: I am CC'ing Debian QA because this fixes an RC bug and the maintainer may be MIA. I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.2.1-4.1 of my package "zynaddsubfx". OK, I have uploaded another version with a couple of more fixes and have moved the source changes from diff.gz to patches. A quick glance at the package made me conclude two things: - It seems you did a good job fixing lots of things, making the package much better. - This is not an NMU upload, but a QA upload. If the maintainer is indeed MIA, that's fine, but he might not be, so I'm currently not sponsoring this. QA team, how should this be handled? Do we wait for you to confirm MIA-ness, or do you upload the package yourself if he is MIA? Has anyone pinged Eduardo recently? This is an important package, which needs proper maintainance. The upload should probably be sponsored via debian-multimedia rather than QA. Opinions, Offers? :) cheers, tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFS: zynaddsubfx
Hi Barry, I'm copying this to debian-multimedia as well. you wrote: Barry deFreese wrote: Dear mentors, I am CC'ing Debian QA because this fixes an RC bug and the maintainer may be MIA. I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.2.1-4.1 of my package "zynaddsubfx". It builds these binary packages: zynaddsubfx - Realtime software synthesizer for Linux The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 415675, 445792 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/z/zynaddsubfx - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/z/zynaddsubfx/zynaddsubfx_2.2.1-4.1.dsc Thank you, Barry deFreese OK, I have uploaded another version with a couple of more fixes and have moved the source changes from diff.gz to patches. Sorry for mailing debian-qa-request previously. :-( Thanks! Barry deFreese cheers, tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFS: zynaddsubfx
Joerg Jaspert wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.2.1-4.1 of my package "zynaddsubfx". Has anyone pinged Eduardo recently? This is an important package, which needs proper maintainance. The upload should probably be sponsored via debian-multimedia rather than QA. Opinions, Offers? :) Its in no way important, not even near to it. Its priority extra, so lowest possible priority. Sorry, wrong terminology. It's a very useful multimedia application, which many people use and would expect to find in Debian. Therefore it is worth making the extra effort to keep it well maintained IMO. The point being that debian-multimedia should deal with it if group maintenance is needed rather than QA. cheers, tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFS: zynaddsubfx
Eduardo Macan wrote: Just got back from the dead :) I'm still going through a great deal of personal hell, though. Wow. Sorry to hear you've been having such a hard time. Let us know what we can do to help. :) Best Wishes, tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFS: QA Upload -- kguitar - Stringed instrument tablature editor for KDE
Barry deFreese wrote: Hi, Here is a QA upload for kguitar. Fixes 2 bugs and standards update, etc. if someone has time to review/upload. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/k/kguitar/kguitar_0.5-3.dsc Description: Stringed instrument tablature editor for KDE Kguitar is basically a guitar tablature editor for K Desktop Environment. . It's much more than just a tab editor. It's features are: * Powerful and convenient tablature editing, including many effects and classical note score editing for classic instrument players; * Full and very customizable MIDI to tablature import and export; * Support of extra data formats, such as ASCII tablatures, MusicXML or popular programs' format, such as Guitar Pro's or TablEdit; * Chord fingering construction tools - chord finder and chord analyzer; * Many additional facilities to ease tabbing work, including rhythm and lead construction tools; * Highly customizable to suit a lot of possible instruments (not only 6-string guitars, and even not only guitars), including drum tracks, lyrics and other MIDI events. More Great Work Barry. I have forwarded this to debian-multimedia, just in case. It is probably worth Ccing debian-multimedia on all audio/video apps that you prepare QA uploads for. cheers, tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFS: fluid-soundfont -- Fluid (R3) General MIDI SoundFont
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Toby Smithe wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fluid-soundfont". * Package name: fluid-soundfont Version : 3-1 Upstream Author : Frank Wen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://tsmithe.users.ubuntustudio.org/fluid-soundfont_r3.tar.gz * License : MIT Section : sound I have been burned by soundfonts before, does Frank Wen have a site or somesuch, describing how he made the soundfount, where he got the instruments, etc? I understand your concern, Henrique. However, the question still makes me want to punch something. Do we really have to nit-pick a hundred or more sets of samples to check whether each one is DFSG-free? Can we not accept the upstream author's license so long as it remains unchallenged? Would you subject a text font to such scrutiny? Please don't take my remarks personally, these are real questions. We've been campaigning / waiting for a suitable soundfont candidate for something like 5 years (CMIIW). FluidR3 is the obvious candidate, it is pretty ancient and I wouldn't be at all surprised if Frank Wen has not kept records of all sample sources. I fully realise that the font has to be sufficiently free from the 'tentacles of evil' that users could edit it in Swami and use it as a basis for new distributable fonts and also use it in their compositions without fear of retribution. This font has been out in the wild for enough years, surely? OK, I know, assume nothing. So realistically, how should we approach this? What real chance is there of getting it into lenny / Hardy? There are a couple of side issues here relating to recognition of mimetypes. Nautilus thinks that SF2 files are video/x-msvideo, causing it to wrongly assume they are some form of AVI and associate with Movie players rather than Swami / FluidSynth; and SFARK files as application/x-extension-sfArk or application/octet-stream (i.e. unknown/unsupported). I know how to deal with this as a user, it just would be good to set some reasonable defaults. Toby, this is fantastic work. Thank you. I suggest that the package should be distributed by debian-multimedia / UbuntuStudio / 64 Studio initially to test the waters and someone sensible raise at least an ITP so that any license violations can be properly tracked using the BTS. Please, please, please let's walk the extra mile for this package. How can I help? I'm not a DD either. Are we ever going to be able to distribute soundfonts? If not now, when? cheers, tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
