Bug#859808: composite: Composite not ready for being qualified package of Debian yet.

[Gabriel Beddingfield]

Hi all,

I'm the developer of Composite. In my humble opinion, Composite should
never have been added to Debian. It was not ready. While it did offer a
little bit of useful functionality (the hydrogen drumkits as an LV2
plugin), it overall was the beginnings of a new project, and Debian added
it before it even developed a character of its own. It was never intended
that it would detract from or cause confusion with the original Hydrogen
project. The only reason why it looks like an old version of Hydrogen is
that I had not yet gotten around to a useable replacement UI. And while I
would love to go back to work on the project, for all intents and purposes
it's dead. I don't have time to work on it.

And as compiler changes and libraries move forward, I don't think the
Debian devs should bother maintaining this package.

Whoever added it to Debian I'm sure had good intentions, perhaps thinking
it would help the project. However, it did not help the project.

I support the removal of Composite from Debian.

-gabe
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