Bug#859808: composite: Composite not ready for being qualified package of Debian yet.

Digidog digidog at maroqqo.com
Fri Apr 7 15:00:25 UTC 2017


Package: composite
Version: 0.006.2+dfsg0-7
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

Request
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 + Please remove the Composite package from the Debian repositories in near future.

Reasons
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 + Composite describes its own status as "a broken version of Hydrogen"
 + This status has never been changed since 2009
 + Composite stucks in early alpha and completely feels, acts, looks and works like Hydrogen, a well known and in active development being audio application with the exactly same GUI and features atm.
 + The roadmap shows that this package is in early state and only confuses Hydrogen users now since this fork has never left any copy paste state yet despite of its name

Sources
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 + http://riggable.com/composite/
 + http://riggable.com/composite/roadmap.html
 + http://riggable.com/composite/faq.html#q.what-is-composite
 + https://sourceforge.net/p/hydrogen/mailman/message/23947443/
 + http://www.hydrogen-music.org/hcms/

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages composite depends on:
ii  composite-data                    0.006.2+dfsg0-7
ii  jackd                             5
ii  libc6                             2.24-9
ii  libflac++6v5                      1.3.2-1
ii  libflac8                          1.3.2-1
ii  libgcc1                           1:6.3.0-11
ii  libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.125]  1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg-5
ii  liblrdf0                          0.6.1-1
ii  libqt4-network                    4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-xml                        4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libqtcore4                        4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libqtgui4                         4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libsndfile1                       1.0.27-1+b1
ii  libstdc++6                        6.3.0-11
ii  libtar0                           1.2.20-7
ii  zlib1g                            1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

composite recommends no packages.

composite suggests no packages.

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