yoshimi && packaging

Jonathan E. Brickman jeb at joshuacorps.org
Sun Jan 3 13:26:51 UTC 2010


Thanks very much, Eric!  Cal is twelve hours or so around the marble 
from us; I'm sure we'll both be on pkg-multimedia-maintainers very shortly.

J.E.B.

> Hi Cal,
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 06:24:01PM +1100, cal wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> Way back in March there was a tentative probe on LAD soliciting
>> participation in packaging for debian-multimedia. Since then (and
>> prior to) I've been working on getting functional jack audio and midi
>> in ZynAddSubFX. The end result of that effort is a Linux only
>> derivative of Zyn known as Yoshimi<http://yoshimi.sorceforge.net>.
>>
>> While the original Zyn is a truly outstanding little synth, it has long
>> suffered from miserable performance with Jack. With yoshimi I've managed
>> to achieve functional Jack audio and midi, and added Alsa audio out
>> (useful for simple performance and rehearsal, perhaps even busking?).
>>
>> Yoshimi has gained small but enthusiastic following among zynaddsubfx
>> users via LAU, so I figured it might be a worthwhile candidate for a
>> debian-multimedia package. Yoshimi uses a cmake build, so cdbs has
>> proved helpful. I've got it to the point where git-buildpackage is
>> mostly fine, but there's still a few points I need to refine. The main
>> one at the moment is - why doesn't git-buildpackage pick up&&  include
>> the man page?
>>
>> Perhaps this might be the place to seek guidance. Hope so.
>>
>> cheers, Cal
>>      
> debian-multimedia disucussion has moved to:
> pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
>
> I've cc'ed the alioth list as you are more likely to get responses
> there. See the wiki for further info about the team:
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia
>
> -edrz
>
>
>    




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