Hi bill On 2021-02-03 10:34:37 -0500, bill-auger wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: important > Tags: ftbfs patch > X-Debbugs-Cc: bill-auger@programmer.net > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the 'freeewheeling' package: > > * Package name : freeewheeling > Version : 0.6.4-1.1 > Upstream Author : bill-auger <bill-auger@programmer.net> > * URL : http://freewheeling.sourceforge.net > * License : GPL2+ > * Vcs : https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/freewheeling.git > Section : sound > > It builds those binary packages: > > freewheeling - live looping musical instrument > > To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: > > https://mentors.debian.net/package/freewheeling/ > > Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: > > dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/freewheeling/freewheeling_0.6.4-1.1.dsc > > Changes since the last upload: > > * support fluidsynth2 (Closes: #946863) > * fix thread-count race condition during memory-manager init > * enable pckeyboard interface The change to nettle-dev is not documented. What's the reason for the change? Cheers > > > NOTES: > > note that the two additional patches are not strictly necessary, WRT the RC bug; > but they are rather important, and are taken from the current upstream sources - > upgrading to the current upstream version would also fix the RC bug; but it was > suggested to me, that back-porting the important changes onto the existing debian > sources, would increase the chances of finding a sponsor > > this program has been broken in debain since fluidsynth v1 was dropped - i am > the upstream maintainer; and i normally build .deb packages on OBS; so it would > not be much extra effort to mind the debian package, if help is needed - at the > suggestion of the debian-mia team, i have also filed a ITS bug (#981633), for in > case the debian maintainer does not respond > > at this time, help is clearly needed - the RC bug (#946863), including a proposed > patch to fix it, is over a year old, with no acknowlegment by the maintainer - > FWIW, support for fluidsynth2 was added upstream, nearly a year before that became > a problem affecting debian - about one month after fluidsynth v1 was dropped from > debian, the debian-multimedia team put the packaging under salsa VCS, and prepared > the current upstream release; which included the changes needed for debian-fitness, > and made the BTS patch unnecessary - the package is not team mainatined though; > and they did not do an NMU, assuming that the maintainer (who is also on the > debian-multimedia team) would do it - unfortunately, that did not happen though; > and the package was dropped from [testing] this week; which is what prompted me to act now > -- Sebastian Ramacher
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