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Re: [Fwd: RFC/RFS: rosegarden4: music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer]

Mike O'Connor wrote:

I've packaged a newer version of rosegarden4.  I have been trying to
normal means of finding a sponsor for this package (mailing
d-mentors@l.d.o, and asking a bunch of times on #debian-mentors), but I
haven't yet been successful.  I didn't know about this mailing list
previously, so I thought I'd try here. 
Attached is my original RFC/RFS that I had sent to debian-mentors.

Thanks,

stew


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Subject:
RFC/RFS: rosegarden4: music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer
From:
Mike O'Connor <stew@vireo.org>
Date:
Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:36:54 -0500
To:
debian-mentors@lists.debian.org

To:
debian-mentors@lists.debian.org


I intend to adopt rosegarden4.  The ITA is here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352541

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Description: music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer
 Rosegarden4 is a KDE application which provides a mixed Audio/MIDI
 sequencer (for playback and recording), a multi-track editor, music
 editing using both piano-roll and score notation, MIDI file IO,
 lilypond and Csound files export, etc.
 .
 Rosegarden4 is a complete rewrite of the old rosegarden application,
 available in the "rosegarden" debian package.

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I have prepared packages and they are available here:

deb http://vireo.org/debian/rosegarden4/binary/
deb-src http://vireo.org/debian/rosegarden4/source/


Here is my changelist:
Changes: rosegarden4 (1.2.3-1) unstable; urgency=low 
 .
   * New Maintainer (Closes: #352541)
   * New upstream version
   * No longer building a verbose debug version (Closes: #311087)
   * Fixed typo in manpage (Closes: #341660)
   * Split arch-indep files into a rosegarden4-data pacakge (Closes: #233437)
   * The upstream menu icon is now included (Closes: #299390)
   * Moved jackd from Depends: to Recommends: (Closes: #219286)

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I would appreciate any comments anyone may have on my packaging.
I assume this is a glibc6 / gcc4 build, so I won't be testing this immediately. Do you mind if I announce these packages on users@lists.agnula.org so we can get some testing done?
This package strikes me as an ideal candidate for Debian-multimedia to sponsor / co-maintain, this requires at least one DD on this list to be enthusiastic about the idea. Rosegarden4 is one of Linux Audio's flagship apps IMO and it has always looked bad that Debian constantly ships with the version before last. This wasn't necessarily Enrique's fault, although he could have made a formal RFH sooner.
I hope you will be able to work with Willem van Engen <wvengen+demudi@stack.nl> who intends to package the dssi stuff, I also think that this list will be the right place to co-ordinate efforts. I'm glad you found us. 

Comments?

cheers,

tim hall
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