On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 07:27:39AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 04 Dec 2003, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > * timidity: Remove from testing (and orphan). (#166869) > > I will adopt this one. > > Expect an upload in 7 days. I will probably ignore the timidity-patches > problems for now, but we shall see. I've been occasionally chasing after MIDI patch sets to try and find a sane solution, but it seems that free patch sets simply do not exist. Creating MIDI patch sets is quite an expenditure of effort, so this isn't overly surprising in hindsight - it's time consuming, boring, and requires a professional recording studio to get a vaguely decent one. I recommend that we operate on the assumption that one will not appear, and ship timidity configured to run without patches. In this configuration it is unable to play MIDI files, but can still play module files (soundtracker, etc), since they embed their patches. People who have purchased or otherwise acquired a patch set can configure it appropriately for software MIDI playback. Yeah, it sucks, but we don't have much choice. [Whenever any supposedly-free patch sets appear, I can invariably identify them as unlicensed property of Gravis Inc. on inspection] -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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