Henrique de Moraes Holschuh skrev: > On Sat, 03 Oct 2009, David Henningsson wrote: >> Package: freepats >> Version: 20060219-1 >> Severity: minor >> >> Freepats claims, in its debian/control description, that it is "the sole >> DFSG-compliant patch set in existence so far". But package >> "fluid-soundfont-gm" is a patch set and must be DFSG, or it wouldn't be >> in Debian's main repository. So the claim seems false to me. > > Thanks for the report. > > However, if fluid is working well, wouldn't it make more sense to outright > remove freepats from the archive? > > Can you give me your impression about freepats and fluid? Is there any > situation where one should prefer freepats over fluid? > > Because if there isn't one, I think we should remove freepats.
Well, freepats is 32 MB where fluid-soundfont is 145 MB, so it could make sense to keep it where hard disk space is desirable. But I believe your question is valid, it seems like freepats is not really updated anymore and it is not really complete either, so over time perhaps it could be replaced by a trimmed version of fluid-soundfont. Fluid-soundfont is in sf2 format though, and perhaps not all of the programs depending on freepats are ready to switch from pat to sf2. To fix this issue we could do a one-time conversion from sf2 to pat (via a commercial program such as Awave studio), but then we'll lose some quality as sf2 allows for more features than pat does (such as multi-layering). // David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
