Fluidsynth 1.1.2

Alessio Treglia alessio at debian.org
Sun Sep 12 10:32:45 UTC 2010


Hi David,

it's good to see this new release!

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:13 PM, David Henningsson
<david.henningsson at canonical.com> wrote:
> Things are going pretty well (nothing committed to alioth yet), but I
> noticed that the CMake build system no longer has generates an .a file. I'm
> not a linking expert, so - does this matter?

This means that upstream has decided to not compile static libraries anymore.
It's fine for me, I don't have any objection.

> dpkg-buildpackage: full upload; Debian-native package (full source is
> included)
> Now running lintian...
> W: fluidsynth source: debian-watch-file-in-native-package
> W: fluidsynth source: native-package-with-dash-version
> How do I avoid that?

By switching to format 3.0 (quilt) [1], which allows us to strip
upstream's debian directory without repacking the original tarball.

> Third, Squeeze is now frozen. Can this version still go into unstable, or
> does it have to go into experimental?

I see several changes, so experimental would be the right place [2].


[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0#Advantagesofnewformats
[2] http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/wiki/ChangeLog1_1_2

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