Hi Thorsten, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > as far as Iâm informed, the soundfont is not an âAPIâ of MuseScore, > i.e. it can, and possibly will, change without notice.
If upstream finds a way to further improve the soundfont and decides to ship a modified version in the next release, I am fine with that. The actual file format, I believe, can be considered stable, though. It has already been adopted by other upstreams than musescore and fluidsynth. > Sure, we can split it off, and itâll be versioned with the version > of the corresponding MuseScore package, but thatâll be all of it, > unless someone actively maintains the soundfont. Sure, as long as musescore keeps shipping this soundfont, it will be part of that source package. > Furthermore, MuseScore may cease shipping this, or ship an > incompatible version, in the future. I *really* wish to avoid > a repeat of #768524 where we could not upgrade MuseScore because > something used the old soundfont. I'd rather see it as a positive sign that musescore's soundfont has proved useful outside of its original scope. > If Fabian insists, [...] I do, please split the soundfont off into a separate package. ;) > If anyone cares about it and would maintain the soundfont split > off if necessary, do share. I can take care of implementing the soundfont split-off in the musescore Debian package and I would also volunteer to maintain it in a separate source package should musescore ever decide to break it or not ship it anymore. Thanks! - Fabian _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
