On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 06:36:34PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
>>> If you aren't aware of any free sample bank, this doesn't mean they
>>> don't exist...
>> This is not the way it works.
> IMHO it is the way it works.
I'm sorry, but it's not. Debian policy, section 2.2.1:
[...] the packages in _main_
* must not require a package outside of _main_ for compilation or
execution (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends", "Recommends",
or "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-_main_ package),
Unless you really want to split hairs, I'd say it's reasonable to say that
fluidsynth requires an external synth bank for execution. There's no such
thing in main, thus it can't go into main.
There have been multiple analogous cases to fluidsynth; Doom was for instance
in contrib for several years since there was no packaged free WAD, and Quake
II and openduke are still in that situation. ZSNES is in contrib because
there are no packages of free SNES ROMs, nestra likewise, etc. etc. etc. --
you could probably find dozens of similar examples if you just look. Just
saying “well, you can use it with free data, and you can't prove that there's
no free data out there” doesn't really cut it.
> You can create your own sound fonts with swami for example.
That doesn't help.
> FYI, swami is a sound bank editor and AFAICT, swami doesn't depend on any
> sound bank package either.
That's good for swami (so it can rightfully go into main), but it does not
help fluidsynth any.
>> Are there none in main, but available on the Internet or otherwise? In that
>> case, please package at least one of them (in main!) and depend on it.
> I won't,
Then your package must go into contrib, sorry.
> don't know if you're a DD, if not I'd be glad to sponsor your package.
I am a DD. I definitely won't create such a package, though. :-)
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