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

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On August 29, 2015 4:13:28 PM EDT, Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote:
>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.

Was there a previous ITP bug?

Scott K