On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 09:38:03 +0100, Andy wrote: > I'm writing to you as I saw that you currently maintain the libmidi-perl > Debian package. This is not entirely true; the package is maintained by the Debian Perl Group, I just happen to be the only person currently in the Uploaders field :) Cc'ing debian-perl@lists.debian.org to get the team involved. And for future reference: https://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/howto/RFP.html > I'm missing a Debian package of the Perl MIDI::ALSA module [1] and was > wondering if this is something you could package up for Debian? > [1] http://search.cpan.org/~pjb/MIDI-ALSA-1.20/ALSA.pm I just had a look at packaging it [0]; there are no big obstacles but what keeps me from uploading is that the test suite fails quite spectacularly PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC=1 "/usr/bin/perl" "-Iblib/lib" "-Iblib/arch" test.pl 1..57 ALSA lib seq_hw.c:466:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory can't open sequencer # To run all tests, four virmidi clients are needed... # You might need to add the line: # modprobe snd_virmidi enable=1 # to create 4 virmidi ports # to your /etc/rc.local :-) when building as usual in a chroot. This means we either have to butcher the test.pl to run only tests which don't need kernel modules and devices or that we have to skip it or ignore the failures. Unless someone else has a better idea … [0] Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libmidi-alsa-perl.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libmidi-alsa-perl.git Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - https://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Josh With: Friendless city blues
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