Re: Proposal: new virtual packages sf2-soundfont-gm and sf3-soundfont-gm

[Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>]

Hello,

чт, 1 авг. 2019 г. в 13:18, Fabian Greffrath <fabian@debian.org>:
>
> Dear debian-devel,
>
> we, the maintainers of soundfont packages in Debian, i.e. currently
> mostly Thorsten Glaser <tg> and myself, would like to propose the
> introduction of two additional virtual packages:
>
>         sf2-soundfont-gm
>         sf3-soundfont-gm
>
> Background: There is currently no default location defined for (General
> MIDI compatible) soundfonts in Debian, so applications or libraries
> rendering MIDI music with soundfonts need to be explicitely provided a
> soundfont location, e.g. [1]. We want to fix this and provide a default
> soundfont in the two most common formats (i.e. SF2, and SF3 which is
> the same as SF2 but with OGG-Vorbis compressed samples).

I'd definitely support this proposal. It will ease configuration of
all SF-using packages.

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry