Re: Bug#797021: ITP: midicsv -- translate MIDI file to CSV

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 04:42:02PM -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : midicsv
>   Version         : 1.1
>   Upstream Author : John Walker @ http://www.fourmilab.ch/
> * URL             : http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/midicsv/
> * License         : public-domain
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : translate MIDI file to CSV
> 
> Midicsv reads a standard MIDI file and decodes it into a CSV
> (Comma-Separated Value) file which preserves all the information in the
> MIDI file.  The ASCII CSV file may be loaded into a spreadsheet or database
> application, or processed by a program to transform the MIDI data (for
> example, to key transpose a composition or extract a track from a
> multi-track sequence).  A CSV file in the format created by midicsv may be
> converted back into a standard MIDI file with the csvmidi program.

I can't believe this is just a "coincidence"

What kind of strange package hijacking is this?

I had this package at people.debian.org and it was going to be the
first package of Víctor Cuadrado.

Puzzled.