freepats isn't a hard-dependency, since people who use timidity are likely to get the patches from another source. Sadly, freepats are badly incomplete and of inferior quality.
I think the recommendation should be switched to fluid-soundfont. -- 1KB // Yo momma uses IPv4! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org