Re: multimedia-policy: DSSI and related packages?

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

>   JU> Hi,
>   JU> I've been casually glancing over linux-audio-user mailing list and
>   JU> noticed that there's something called DSSI.  It's even packaged in
>   JU> Debian, although I don't know if any apps actually use it.
> 
> It entered Debian  very recently. But  AFAIK now plugins are available
> yet.
> 
> One of  the packages  that should  be   rebuilt with dssi  support  is
> rosegarden4.

Great.

Am I right in thinking DSSI is ladspa with their own GUI (mirroring VST).
 
>   JU> Things I'd like to see:
> 
>   JU> 1. package dependency information to signify who supports dssi.
>   JU>   Provides/recommends: dssi-plugin/dssi-host ?
> 
>   JU> 2. related packages packaged, such as whysynth, om.
>   JU>   Anyone packaged them yet?
> 
> I've packaed dssi-vst, see:
> 
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/demudi/dssi-vst/?rev=0&sc=0
> 
> but couldn't make it buil with wine 0.9.7 from Debian/testing, it's
> working only with wine from stable.

From memory, VST was non-free, it disallowed modification (like most
other specifications which care about compatibility). This was two
years ago; has anyhthing changed since?



regards,
	junichi
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