Thanks for getting back to me Fabian, > The Depends: musescore-soundfont-gm has been demoted into a Suggests It has? As far as I see musescore-2.0.1+dfsg-2 still has
musescore-soundfont-gm as a dependency, with fluid-soundfont-gm and timgm6mb-soundfont as Suggests... (if things have changed please disregard) this means that musescore2 still depends on timgm6mb-soundfont via musescore-soundfont-gm despite it listed as a Suggests. Because of this depends relationship it means musescore2 can't enter testing until timgm6mb-soundfont does, which as you say still awaits ftp-master approval. See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/musescore which points to https://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=musescore for the list of problems with musescore2. > Musescore (>= 2.0) now ships its own font Personally I vote for taking this font out and putting it its own package like the other fonts. As far as I understand FluidR3Mono_GM just represents a lighter version of the already packaged fluid-soundfont-gm, which means it works better on slower computers. By turning this into a virtual package, and keeping it as a required package for musescore we effectively allow the user to pick and choose whether they want to just install the lite or the full version of this font (of course they can still install both, but this would give the user that extra option). Anyway, just an idea, I don't know what plans you have for the package. Just really wanting to give MuseScore 2 a spin :). Success, Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: Fabian Greffrath <fab...@debian.org> To: Jack Underwood <juichenieder-deb...@yahoo.co.uk>; 791...@bugs.debian.org Cc: Sent: Monday, 6 July 2015, 16:32 Subject: Re: Bug#791589: musescore-soundfont-gm: Many muse soundfonts exist. Consider making virtual. Hi Jack, Am Montag, den 06.07.2015, 16:02 +0200 schrieb Jack Underwood: > However many such sound font files exist on debian (e.g. fluid-soundfont-gm, > so > I wonder if this package should become a virtual package instead. there are two, this is the other one. Actually, Musescore (>= 2.0) had changed the prefered sound font format and now ships its own font in "/usr/share/mscore -2.0/sound/FluidR3Mono_GM.sf3". The Depends: musescore-soundfont-gm has been demoted into a Suggests. Moreover, this package is now an empty dummy pulling in the separately packaged sound font in the old format, which is currently waiting for ftp-master approval: https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/timgm6mb-soundfont_1.3-1.html Cheers, Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
