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

[James Cowgill]

Jaromír,

Do you still think we should keep composite given what Gabriel has said?

Should the small number of existing composite users be redirected to
hydrogen through a transitional package?

Thanks,
James

On 09/04/17 17:48, diqidoq | MAROQQO wrote:
> Hi Gabriel,
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to chime in here. I really appreciate your
> open and clear statement about the status of the project. It helps me a
> lot here, since many seem not to get where I come from with this issue,
> which, by the way, was a recommendation on IRC #debian-next and not my
> first idea on the list how to solve this.
> 
> I hope you know that it never was my intension to offend anybody. I
> really appreciate the hard work all contributors give to their projects
> because I know how hard it can be. Thanks for your efforts to contribute
> to audio software on Linux. And thanks again for your open and unbiased
> support on this.
> 
> Greetings from Berlin!
> 
> On 04/08/2017 11:16 PM, Gabriel Beddingfield wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm the developer of Composite. In my humble opinion, Composite should
>> never have been added to Debian. It was not ready. While it did offer a
>> little bit of useful functionality (the hydrogen drumkits as an LV2
>> plugin), it overall was the beginnings of a new project, and Debian
>> added it before it even developed a character of its own. It was never
>> intended that it would detract from or cause confusion with the original
>> Hydrogen project. The only reason why it looks like an old version of
>> Hydrogen is that I had not yet gotten around to a useable replacement
>> UI. And while I would love to go back to work on the project, for all
>> intents and purposes it's dead. I don't have time to work on it.
>>
>> And as compiler changes and libraries move forward, I don't think the
>> Debian devs should bother maintaining this package.
>>
>> Whoever added it to Debian I'm sure had good intentions, perhaps
>> thinking it would help the project. However, it did not help the project.
>>
>> I support the removal of Composite from Debian.
>>
>> -gabe
>>
> 
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