Removing rumor

James Cowgill jcowgill at debian.org
Thu Jan 4 23:25:01 UTC 2018


Hi,

On 04/01/18 22:34, Ryan Kavanagh wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The rumor package converts MIDI keyboard input to Lilypond sheet music notation.
> We initially introduced this package back in 2009 because Frescobaldi (a
> Lilypond IDE) interfaced with it, but Frescobaldi now does its own MIDI to
> Lilypond conversion. Rumor hasn't been maintained upstream since 2010 and it
> needs to be updated for every new guile release.
> 
> Given it's abandoned upstream, its main use case (Frescobaldi) no longer
> applies, and it requires regular patching, I propose removing it from the
> archive.
> 
> Are there any objections? (Alternatively, would anybody like to add themselves
> to the uploaders field and take over keeping an eye on it for me?)

Not an objection, but an observation that upstream did claim to commit
some fixes in September 2017:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/rumor/+bug/782750
https://bugs.launchpad.net/rumor/+bug/1413108

I can't find the repo though.

James

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