musescore 2.0.3+dfsg-1

[Fabian Greffrath]

Hi again,

Am Donnerstag, den 14.07.2016, 17:18 +0100 schrieb Peter Jonas:
> Freetype is included because not included for convenience. It is
> included because MuseScore's code has been tailored towards a
> specific
> version of Freetype and other versions of Freetype have been known to
> cause problems in the past.

hm, I still don't really buy this argument. Some more thoughts on this
matter:

1) Debian Policy should always have top-priority for decisions to be
made regarding software that is maintained in Debian. If "but upstream
may complain" is reason enough to grant an exception from Debian
Policy, then we may sooner or later end up with more exceptions than
rules.

2) We should ask ourselves *why* upstream is embedding libfreetype. If
they want the best font rendering result for their users, please feel
certain that Debian wants to achieve the same result with its own
library package. I don't see why musescore is so much more tied to a
specific font rendering library version than other more complex
applications. And if it is, this somehow tastes like bad practice.

3) We should ask ourselves *what* upstream is actually embedding. If
they are embedding a pristine copy of libfreetype, I don't see any
problem with using Debian's version either. If they are embedding a
modified version with non-upstreamed changes, they are actually
creating a fork. Are we as the pkg-multimedia team in a position to
maingain a fork of a library such as freetype for the sole purpose of
being used in one single package?

Also, please keep in mind that for some time especially freetype could
have been used to sneek in potentially patented font rendering code
paths -- although I am not saying that this is happening here or has
ever happened at all.

Cheers,

 - Fabian
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