Bug#819332: tuxguitar: New 1.3.x versions available upstream

[Jérôme]

Le Sat, 9 Apr 2016 17:53:01 -0700,
tony mancill  a écrit :

> Hello Jérôme,

Hi.
 
> Thank you for reporting the updated version.  I have taken a quick
> look and the new upstream tarball needs some license clarification
> before it will be distributable as per the DFSG.
> 
> For example, the soundbank beneath ./TuxGuitar-resources/ merely says
> that it was "contributed," but doesn't clarify the distribution
> license. Furthermore, I think we'll run into problems with it not
> being in a "preferred form of modification."

I don't know about the "preferred form of modification". I don't know
how an sf2 file is built and if we could expect some sort of sources
for it.

Anyway, it makes sense to distribute it independently, making it just a
Suggests (and allowing other softwares to use it as well).

FWIW, here is another package with .sf2 files:
https://sources.debian.net/src/fluid-soundfont/3.1-5/

Regarding the licence, without any notice stating otherwise, I'd say
LGPL like the rest, but it doesn't hurt to ask the author. His email
address is in the AUTHORS file. I was about to email him, but you may
want to do it and address the source files issue in the same message.

> Similarly, parts of the TuxGuitar-android tree is GPLv2 instead of
> LGPL, but I believe it can simply be excluded from a DFSG tarball.

Yes, absolutely.
 
> > Any plans to package it?
> 
> I can try, but I welcome help.  I think the first thing to do is
> determine whether we need/want to try to distribute the soundbank
> (via a contrib package) and have the tuxguitar-jsa package suggest
> that. Looking at the popcon graphs [1], the -jsa package isn't nearly
> as popular as either -alsa or -oss, so maybe it's preferable to get
> 1.3.x packaged without it?

If you mean package everything but Magic Sound Font (at least for now)
and the Android stuff, then I totally agree.

Thanks.

-- 
Jérôme

Bug#819332: tuxguitar: New 1.3.x versions available upstream

[tony mancill]

On 03/26/2016 02:51 PM, Jérôme wrote:
> Package: tuxguitar
> Version: 1.2-20
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> a new version of Tux Guitar was released beginning of 2016.
> 
> http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/changes.html
> 
> Version 1.3.2 (2016-03-16)

Hello Jérôme,

Thank you for reporting the updated version.  I have taken a quick look
and the new upstream tarball needs some license clarification before it
will be distributable as per the DFSG.

For example, the soundbank beneath ./TuxGuitar-resources/ merely says
that it was "contributed," but doesn't clarify the distribution license.
 Furthermore, I think we'll run into problems with it not being in a
"preferred form of modification."

Similarly, parts of the TuxGuitar-android tree is GPLv2 instead of LGPL,
but I believe it can simply be excluded from a DFSG tarball.

> Any plans to package it?

I can try, but I welcome help.  I think the first thing to do is
determine whether we need/want to try to distribute the soundbank (via a
contrib package) and have the tuxguitar-jsa package suggest that.
Looking at the popcon graphs [1], the -jsa package isn't nearly as
popular as either -alsa or -oss, so maybe it's preferable to get 1.3.x
packaged without it?

Cheers,
tony

[1] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=tuxguitar



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Bug#819332: tuxguitar: New 1.3.x versions available upstream

[Jérôme]

Package: tuxguitar
Version: 1.2-20
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

a new version of Tux Guitar was released beginning of 2016.

http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/changes.html

Version 1.3.2 (2016-03-16)

This is a bug fix release

Version 1.3.1 (2016-02-08)

This is a bug fix release

Version 1.3.0 (2016-01-08)

Add let ring support
Add count down support
Add show/hide toolbars feature
Add song templates support
Add bank selection support
Soundfont selection support in gervill plugin
Improved jack support
New oxygen skin
New gpx importer plugin
New svg exporter plugin
New image exporter plugin
Magic Sound Font v2.0 Contributed by Dennis Deutschmann
Improved print support
Improved PDF support
Many bug fixes
First android port has been released

I'm mentioning this in case it was unnoticed since apparently the watch file is 
broken.

Any plans to package it?

Thanks.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages tuxguitar depends on:
ii  default-jre [java2-runtime]2:1.7-52
ii  file   1:5.22+15-2+deb8u1
ii  libitext-java  2.1.7-9
ii  libjs-jquery   1.7.2+dfsg-3.2
ii  libswt-cairo-gtk-3-jni 3.8.2-3
ii  libswt-gtk-3-java  3.8.2-3
ii  libswt-webkit-gtk-3-jni3.8.2-3
ii  openjdk-7-jre [java2-runtime]  7u95-2.6.4-1~deb8u1

Versions of packages tuxguitar recommends:
ii  tuxguitar-alsa  1.2-20
ii  tuxguitar-oss   1.2-20

Versions of packages tuxguitar suggests:
pn  lilypond   
pn  tuxguitar-jsa  

-- no debconf information