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

Ilya Orlov ilyaorlov124 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 10 17:07:32 BST 2025


On Fri, 08 Aug 2025 08:46:16 +0200 Fabian Greffrath <fabian at debian.org> wrote:
> 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
>

Hi,

Looking at the source code, lutris looks at files in /usr/share/sounds/sf2 and
/usr/share/soundfonts. And if no fonts exist it writes a warning, so
fluid-soundfont-gs definitely shouldn't be in Depends. In fact I think
it should be in Suggests (together with fluidsynth) because it's only
needed for some runners. And I would say most people use lutris with
wine/proton.
I was gonna contact upstream to clarify usage of these dependencies,
but they are busy working on a new release and disabled issues and PRs
on github.
I am gonna make a MR on Salsa hoping Dave would look at it.

Regarding sf3-soundfont-gm, it seems that sf2-soundfont-gm would fit
better here, but it still will not install fluid-soundfont-gs. So I am
gonna leave it as is

-- 
Cheers
Ilya



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