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

diqidoq | MAROQQO diqidoq at maroqqo.com
Sun Apr 9 16:48:31 UTC 2017


Hi Gabriel,

Thanks for taking the time to chime in here. I really appreciate your 
open and clear statement about the status of the project. It helps me a 
lot here, since many seem not to get where I come from with this issue, 
which, by the way, was a recommendation on IRC #debian-next and not my 
first idea on the list how to solve this.

I hope you know that it never was my intension to offend anybody. I 
really appreciate the hard work all contributors give to their projects 
because I know how hard it can be. Thanks for your efforts to contribute 
to audio software on Linux. And thanks again for your open and unbiased 
support on this.

Greetings from Berlin!

On 04/08/2017 11:16 PM, Gabriel Beddingfield wrote:
> 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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