[Musix-users] Please contribute to the Debian Multimedia Team!

Mon Mar 9 10:44:35 CET 2009

marcos wrote:
> El Domingo, 8 de Marzo de 2009 16:58, Grammostola Rosea escribió:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that you have some packages in your repo, which are not in
>> Debian itself.
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> Sure
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>> My first question is: where can I find the *.dsc files of the packages?
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> Into the bz2 or gz packages
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> ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/deb/sources/
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>> The next thing why I mail you is because it would be great and better if
>> those packages are also in Debian. Why don't you upload the packages to
>> Debian and join the Debian Multimedia Team for package building?
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> Well, sometimes we just make a backport and Debian will not accept it, but I 
> am mailing the collaborators mailing list
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> musix-colaborad at lists.ourproject.org so anyone could get in touch with you
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> Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com>
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> I also was at Debcon8 Mar del Plata, Argentina (I live at Buenos Aires, 400 
> kmts from there), and I was filming and talking with Debian activists and 
> mainteirners. Someone from El Salvador or Ecuador (I dont remember) asked me 
> those questions you are making now
>
> He stayed at the #musix channel on freenode.net for a while, and he wanted to 
> see our comunity, etc., and he used to think that Musix was only a few more 
> packages added to a custom debian
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> That's allways the error from "debian people": you have to know what is the 
> people's need to make some art, for instance, music.
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Yeah, I'm more a musician then a Debian man too ;)
And there are a lot of packages which are not in Debian yet.
- LV2
- rakarrack
- guitarix
- Ingen
- whysynth
- frescobaldi
- etc.

This is a pitty...
Also Musix could benefit a lot if more multimedia packages are in Debian 
imho...

> I will like to collaborate with Debian, we use Debian (Musix 2.0a is now 
> debian live based, ... musix 1.0 was based on knoppix)
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>> The Debian Multimedia Team needs more people who take care of one
>> package (which you uses a lot) and maintain it. Another big argument is:
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>> It will improve:
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>> 1) the quality of the packages
>> 2) Musix as a multimedia distro
>> 3) Debian (and derivatives)  for multimedia usage
>> 4) the  state of  Linux audio (multimedia) in general
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>> So there are both quality and social arguments for it!
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> Sure. I can not maintain a package now, but maybe some Musix's friends could 
> help! Pablo Sastre, Ariel Errera, Daniel Vidal, etc.
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Would be great. Just pick one (or two) packages which you uses a lot and 
which are not in Debian yet and become just a package maintainer. :)

See the weblinks how to join, or mail to 
pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
after subscribing to it.

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>> *Why the Debian Multimedia Team? *
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>> 1) Because they want to improve Debian for music production!
>> 2) Debian has an flexible, fast and easy package management
>> 3) A lot of people use Debian (based) distro's, Debian itself, Ubuntu
>> (Studio), 64studio, Sidux, Mepis etc.
>> 4) You will learn to build quality packages
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> Good point
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>> 5) You don't have to become a Debian developer (DD), you can just become
>> and stay a package maintainer.
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> Nice
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>> *What can I do?*
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>> 1) Build or improve packages for the Debian Multimedia Team. It's
>> recommended to maintain packages you use yourself often.
>> 2) Report bugs and wishes
>> 3) Join the Debian multimedia team mailing list:
>> pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
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>> *Where can I find more info?*
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>> Wiki:
>> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia
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>> Packaging:
>> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging
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>> Existing packages which needs help:
>> http://wnpp.debian.net/
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>> Debian New Maintainers' guide:
>> http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ (!)
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>> Bugs:
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&data=debian-multim
>> edia%40lists.debian.org&archive=no&version=&dist=unstable
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>> It would be great if you choose one package which you uses a lot and
>> maintain it for the Debian Multimedia Team! It would improve the quality
>> of Linux audio and it will help the whole community!
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
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> Thanks
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Thanks for your reply. I hope you guys will join this! :)

One Artist, one package ;)

\r