Package: libsdl-mixer1.2
Version: 1.2.8-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear SDL-Developers,
sdl-mixer does not depend on timidity to play midi; at least not
technically, i.e. it does not need any of the binaries provided by the
timidity package.
However, games do only play music if *both* the timidity and the
freepats packages are installed, although sdl-mixer could play music
with only the freepats package installed. The reason for this is, that
sdl-mixer tries to load timidity's configuration file, which is provided
in '/etc/timidity/timidity.cfg', to find out which patchset is used by
timidity.
By now, the only patchset available in Debian is freepats. Thus the only
line in timidity.cfg (from the Debian package) that is not commented out
is 'source freepats.cfg'. That file is in turn provided by the freepats
package. So the only reason, why sdl-mixer might need the timidity
package is to learn that it should parse the freepats configuration file
instead.
Please find applied a patch that changes the default behaviour to look
for the timidity.cfg file (as before) and then - if it does not succeed
- try to load the freepats.cfg file (in '/etc/timidity/freepats.cfg', as
provided by the Debian package). This way, sdl-mixer can make use of the
patchset provided by the freepats package without even having the
timidity package installed. An existing freepats.cfg will still be first
choice, however.
Thank you very much!
Cheers,
Fabian
--
Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT)
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D-44780 Bochum
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diff -Naru sdl-mixer1.2-1.2.8~/timidity/config.h sdl-mixer1.2-1.2.8/timidity/config.h
--- sdl-mixer1.2-1.2.8~/timidity/config.h 2007-07-02 04:03:51.000000000 +0200
+++ sdl-mixer1.2-1.2.8/timidity/config.h 2007-11-28 07:41:40.000000000 +0100
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@
#define CONFIG_FILE "timidity.cfg"
#define CONFIG_FILE_ETC "/etc/timidity.cfg"
#define CONFIG_FILE_ETC_TIMIDITY "/etc/timidity/timidity.cfg"
+#define CONFIG_FILE_ETC_TIMIDITY_FREEPATS "/etc/timidity/freepats.cfg"
#if defined(__WIN32__) || defined(__OS2__)
#define DEFAULT_PATH "\\TIMIDITY"
diff -Naru sdl-mixer1.2-1.2.8~/timidity/timidity.c sdl-mixer1.2-1.2.8/timidity/timidity.c
--- sdl-mixer1.2-1.2.8~/timidity/timidity.c 2007-07-02 04:03:52.000000000 +0200
+++ sdl-mixer1.2-1.2.8/timidity/timidity.c 2007-11-28 07:42:01.000000000 +0100
@@ -297,7 +297,9 @@
if (read_config_file(CONFIG_FILE)<0) {
if (read_config_file(CONFIG_FILE_ETC)<0) {
if (read_config_file(CONFIG_FILE_ETC_TIMIDITY)<0) {
- return(-1);
+ if (read_config_file(CONFIG_FILE_ETC_TIMIDITY_FREEPATS)<0) {
+ return(-1);
+ }
}
}
}
