musescore 2.0.3+dfsg-1

Tiago Bortoletto Vaz tiago at debian.org
Thu Jul 14 15:18:10 UTC 2016


Hi James, Peter,

The package has been really improved from previews version, thanks a
lot! I agree with Peter about Freetype inclusion. I've had a not so good
experience on reporting issues to upstreams when using a slightly
modified version of MuseScore. So, for the sake of piece I'd just keep
it, also believing there's a good reason for that, even I don't know the
details.

Bests,

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 02:56:46PM +0100, Peter Jonas wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> Many thanks for these changes!
> 
> They all look good to me, except for the patch to exclude Freetype
> which upstream will not be too happy about. Upstream includes Freetype
> intentionally to ensure that font rendering is consistent across
> operating systems. Prior to 2.0.3 MuseScore relied on the system's
> Freetype but this gave results that were inconsistent across different
> systems and fixing kerning issues on one platform would break it on
> another. Of course, if excluding Freetype is an *absolute requirement*
> for inclusion in Debian then MuseScore will of course comply, but I
> know that upstream would *much prefer* to include their own Freetype.
> See https://musescore.org/en/developers-handbook/release-notes/release-notes-musescore-2.0.3#known-incompatibilities
> 
> The other patches will all be welcome upstream. (OpenSSL is only
> needed for the Windows build.)
> 
> Best wishes,
> Peter
> 
> On 14 July 2016 at 13:27, James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've made some changes to the musescore packaging which I've pushed to
> > git. Since I have not worked on musescore before and these changes are
> > quite big, it would be good if someone could comment on them before I
> > upload it.
> >
> > If noone replies I'll probably go ahead and upload it in a day or so.
> >
> > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/musescore.git
> >
> > Thanks,
> > James

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tiago



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