[Bug 226492] Merge Review: timidity++

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Summary: Merge Review: timidity++


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226492





------- Additional Comments From j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl  2008-01-27 17:18 EST -------
Good news after lots of searching and negotiating with the author I've managed
to find a soundfont that meets the content Guidelines for Fedora. I've already
send the license past Spot and he has approved it.

I've packages it and submitted it for review. Its review is bug 430417. Note
that in order to convert the original .sf2 file to gus patch format (needed by
SDL_mixer, allegro, libtimidity and wildmidi) a conversion utility is needed,
its review is bug 430418. So if someone can give me a hand and review these can
then we can get rid of the not licensed gus patches we are currently using.

If you look at soundfont package, you will see that the spec file generates 2
packages:
PersonalCopy-Lite-soundfont
PersonalCopy-Lite-patches

The first contains the pristine .sf2 file from upstream, the other contains the
same file converted into GUS patch format. Timidity++ can handle both, and seems
to do somehat better with the .sf2 format (for one timidity does not support
multiple velocity layers when reading the patches in the gus format).

So it would be best to make timidity depend upon the .sf2 format version.
However that brings us to the question what todo with /etc/timidity.cfg, as
already said: SDL_mixer, allegro, libtimidity and wildmidi all 4 only support
the gus format, and they expect to be able to read a generalmidi mapping in gus
format from /etc/timidity.cfg.

So my proposed solution is to let the gus format package install
/etc/timidity.cfg (and provide timidity++-patches, as that is required by the 4
listed above), and let the .sf2 format package install /etc/timidity-soundfont.cfg.

I then combine this with a patch to timidity to first check for
/etc/timidity-soundfont.conf and fallback to /etc/timidity.cfg if that is
missing, and all is well. Any opinions / input on this?


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