Bug#965344: O: freepats -- Free patch set for MIDI audio synthesis
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I intend to orphan the freepats package. Before orphaning, I have
cleaned up the package (described below).
The (updated) package description is:
Freepats is a free patch set suitable for MIDI audio synthesis. It is not
complete, nor comprehensive yet.
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This is the legacy, small version of freepats in GUS patch format.
This is a very old package, prior to orphaning, it had last been
uploaded in 2006(!). Before orphaning, I have repackaged it using dh
and debhelper compatibility level 12 to ease QA work.
Freepats upstream *is* *active*, but the new versions are 10x bigger and
switched to the newer SF2 format instead of the older GUS pat format.
It will be up to a new maintainer to decide what they want to do about
it. It would make sense to compare a new SF2 freepats to at least the
fluid GM soundfont, too.
As for reverse dependencies of freepats, at least TiMidity++ can deal
with the newer SF2 format used by the new upstream versions, but I have
not checked other reverse dependencies of freepats.
Hopefully someone that is actively working with MIDI synthesis in Debian
can adopt this package.
--
Henrique Holschuh
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