Jaromír, Do you still think we should keep composite given what Gabriel has said?
Should the small number of existing composite users be redirected to hydrogen through a transitional package? Thanks, James On 09/04/17 17:48, diqidoq | MAROQQO wrote: > Hi Gabriel, > > Thanks for taking the time to chime in here. I really appreciate your > open and clear statement about the status of the project. It helps me a > lot here, since many seem not to get where I come from with this issue, > which, by the way, was a recommendation on IRC #debian-next and not my > first idea on the list how to solve this. > > I hope you know that it never was my intension to offend anybody. I > really appreciate the hard work all contributors give to their projects > because I know how hard it can be. Thanks for your efforts to contribute > to audio software on Linux. And thanks again for your open and unbiased > support on this. > > Greetings from Berlin! > > On 04/08/2017 11:16 PM, Gabriel Beddingfield wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm the developer of Composite. In my humble opinion, Composite should >> never have been added to Debian. It was not ready. While it did offer a >> little bit of useful functionality (the hydrogen drumkits as an LV2 >> plugin), it overall was the beginnings of a new project, and Debian >> added it before it even developed a character of its own. It was never >> intended that it would detract from or cause confusion with the original >> Hydrogen project. The only reason why it looks like an old version of >> Hydrogen is that I had not yet gotten around to a useable replacement >> UI. And while I would love to go back to work on the project, for all >> intents and purposes it's dead. I don't have time to work on it. >> >> And as compiler changes and libraries move forward, I don't think the >> Debian devs should bother maintaining this package. >> >> Whoever added it to Debian I'm sure had good intentions, perhaps >> thinking it would help the project. However, it did not help the project. >> >> I support the removal of Composite from Debian. >> >> -gabe >> > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list > pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers >
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