seq24 UVF request

[Dana Olson]

This is an app that isn't very widely used, and is for a small target demographic: musicians who work with MIDI. Even then, it seems most choose Rosegarden or Muse over this one, but I do know that there are a couple of us who like seq24, and would like to have the latest version at the time of Dapper's release.

There are no open bugs on debian or Malone for this package, I believe because the userbase is so small and the application is very small itself, and well-coded. The new upstream version adds a few new features and fixes a few bugs. It also has an updated dependency, to a newer version of libgtkmm.

Guenter just updated his debian package, and I updated my Ubuntu package (and sent my changes to him). I uploaded it to REVU already for convenience: http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=2130

I ran it locally extensively last night, and had no issues with the new version of the package.

Please see the attached files.

[Dana Olson (adolson)]

debian/changelog diff

[Dana Olson (adolson)]

diffstat output

[Hector (h-centeno)]

I second this. seq24 it's a very useful application for music sequencing. I like it because of it's simplicity and because it is very efficient for realtime performance..

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

that's just changelog and diffstat of the debian/ dir

[Dana Olson (adolson)]

I didn't realize that the debian maintainer left seq24 in a tarball, so I had to extract the two tarballs by hand, make a diff, and then run diffstat on the diff. This was my first UVF exception request, so I'm sorry I messed it up.

[Dana Olson (adolson)]

Sorry, I didn't know how to get a buildlog. Here it is.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Don't worry, you do fine. Is there by any chance a changelog somewhere?

[Sebastian Dröge (slomo)]

Hm, what are the reasons that you want this new version? Does it fix any critical bugs, is the current version not working? Please be more verbose with your reasons :)
The code changes seem pretty major from the diffstat and without a very good reason I'm not for updating now.

[Dana Olson (adolson)]

The site is back up today. That's the closest thing to an upstream changelog I could get, as it's not updated in the source tree.

@slomo: See the attachment. There are several bugfixes, as well as updated gtkmm dep and better JACK support.

If you decide not to approve, then I guess I will put all my eggs in the backport basket.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

"If you decide not to approve, then I guess I will put all my eggs in the backport basket." - this sentence is completely unnecessary - if not supposed to be a threat, it still doesn't sound as good as "please consider this update as fix 123 is really important and it works better for all my friends too". Don't get me wrong - I admire your drive and determination, but this sentence doesn't really motivate.

The changelog is not very extensive, but since it seems to fix some issues and if you really stresstested it, I'm fine with an update.

[Sebastian Dröge (slomo)]

Me too... although the changes are really large in contrast to the changelog :)

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

I also agree. This seems to me a rather unknown application, the package has no rdepends, and Dana claims that the newer version fixes problems. Lets upgrade it to the newer version

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

good to go!

[Dana Olson (adolson)]

On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 20:12 +0000, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> "If you decide not to approve, then I guess I will put all my eggs in
> the backport basket." - this sentence is completely unnecessary - if not
> supposed to be a threat, it still doesn't sound as good as "please
> consider this update as fix 123 is really important and it works better
> for all my friends too". Don't get me wrong - I admire your drive and
> determination, but this sentence doesn't really motivate.

Hi Daniel,
I understand. Sorry. It wasn't a threat though, just a statement as the
changelog isn't very helpful and no bug reports were opened, so we (I
think siretart and I, names are bad for me) talked on IRC about it, and
backports was the suggested method if no one could verify any bugs..
I've been in contact with the other two people that I know use it, and
they are very slow and unresponsive - yet they're the ones complaining
to me about old and buggy versions of software in Ubuntu. So I guess
they don't care *THAT* much.
Dana

[Dana Olson (adolson)]

LaserJock uploaded. Thanks.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Ok, I take everything back then. I'm sorry.