Packaging fst and dssi-vst

2006-03-02 Thread Free Ekanayaka
Hi all, I'd like to one or both of these two applications: http://dssi.sourceforge.net http://joebutton.co.uk/fst/ in Debian. Basically they allow running VST audio plugins under Linux, using wine. Both of them are GPL, but unfortunately depend at build time on the VST SDK, which is

Re: Packaging fst and dssi-vst

2006-03-02 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Free Ekanayaka said: Hi all, I'd like to one or both of these two applications: http://dssi.sourceforge.net http://joebutton.co.uk/fst/ in Debian. Basically they allow running VST audio plugins under Linux, using wine. Both of them are GPL, but

Re: Packaging fst and dssi-vst

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Hymers
On Thu, 02, Mar, 2006 at 10:26:46AM +0100, Free Ekanayaka spoke thus.. Hi all, I'd like to one or both of these two applications: http://dssi.sourceforge.net http://joebutton.co.uk/fst/ in Debian. Basically they allow running VST audio plugins under Linux, using wine. Both of them

Re: Packaging fst and dssi-vst

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Hymers
On Thu, 02, Mar, 2006 at 10:26:41AM +, Mark Hymers spoke thus.. dssi may require the VST SDK and will need to be in non-free as far as I Mea culpa. I meant contrib of course if they just need the non-free header to build. Mark -- Mark Hymers [EMAIL PROTECTED] I once absent-mindedly

Re: Packaging fst and dssi-vst

2006-03-02 Thread Free Ekanayaka
|--== Mark Hymers writes: MH Well, first of all, DSSI itself is in Debian main already (see pkg-dssi MH on alioth) and doesn't require the VST SDK to build. MH Some plugins for MH dssi may require the VST SDK and will need to be in non-free as far as I MH can tell, however there are

Re: Packaging fst and dssi-vst

2006-03-02 Thread Free Ekanayaka
|--== Stephen Gran writes: SG dssi is already in Debian, and doesn't use non-free software to build. SG For the other, I have no idea, but if it really needs non-free software SG to build, it's not suitable for main, at least. And indeed I was thinking to contrib, but I'm wondering if

Re: Packaging fst and dssi-vst

2006-03-02 Thread Josh Triplett
Free Ekanayaka wrote: |--== Stephen Gran writes: SG dssi is already in Debian, and doesn't use non-free software to build. SG For the other, I have no idea, but if it really needs non-free software SG to build, it's not suitable for main, at least. And indeed I was thinking to

Re: Packaging fst and dssi-vst

2006-03-02 Thread Free Ekanayaka
|--== Josh Triplett writes: Cleary this would imply that the package can't be build from source by build daemons, but should be built manually by the maintainer, who has agreed the VST SDK license and downloaded the headers. JT Yes, a package in contrib may require things which are