Bug#1110544: lutris: Please drop the dependency on fluid-soundfont-gs

[Fabian Greffrath]

Package: lutris
Version: 0.5.19-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

please drop the dependency on the fluid-soundfont-gs package, which by
means of Recommends pulls in the fluid-soundfont-gm package, which
installs another 150MB on my system.

Reading the `INSTALL.rst` file we learn that fluid-soundfont-gs "or
other soundfonts" are required "for MIDI support". Well, in Debian we
already have a virtual package that you may Depend on to make sure
that at least one suitable soundfont is installed:

  sf3-soundfont-gm

So, please do either add this as an alternative dependency to
fluid-soundfont-gs, or move fluid-soundfont-gs to Recommends. Or,
since it appears that lutris uses fluidsynth for rendering MIDI music,
let the latter take care of its soundfont dependencies itself (and
guess what, it depends on sf3-soundfont-gm).

Thanks!

Cheers,

 - Fabian



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
  APT prefers testing-security
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lutris depends on:
ii  7zip                  24.09+dfsg-8
ii  cabextract            1.11-2
ii  curl                  8.14.1-2
ii  fluid-soundfont-gs    3.1-5.3
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0        3.24.49-3
ii  gir1.2-notify-0.7     0.8.6-1
ii  gir1.2-webkit2-4.1    2.48.3-1
ii  mesa-utils            9.0.0-2+b2
ii  psmisc                23.7-2
ii  python3               3.13.5-1
ii  python3-dbus          1.4.0-1
ii  python3-distro        1.9.0-1
ii  python3-gi            3.50.0-4+b1
ii  python3-gi-cairo      3.50.0-4+b1
ii  python3-lxml          5.4.0-1
ii  python3-magic         2:0.4.27-3
ii  python3-pil           11.1.0-5+b1
ii  python3-requests      2.32.3+dfsg-5
ii  python3-setproctitle  1.3.6-2
ii  python3-yaml          6.0.2-1+b2
ii  unzip                 6.0-29
ii  vulkan-tools          1.4.304.0+dfsg1-1
ii  x11-xserver-utils     7.7+11

Versions of packages lutris recommends:
ii  fluidsynth              2.4.4+dfsg-1
pn  gamemode                <none>
pn  gamescope               <none>
ii  gvfs-backends           1.57.2-2
ii  libwine                 10.0~repack-6
pn  python3-evdev           <none>
pn  python3-protobuf        <none>
pn  winetricks              <none>
ii  xdg-desktop-portal      1.20.3+ds-1
ii  xdg-desktop-portal-gtk  1.15.3-1

lutris suggests no packages.

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