From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: dropping vmpk in favour of jack-keyboard Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 18:32:30 -0400 Message-ID: <20161013223230.GA14481@jasmine> References: <87fuo0hrmy.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48513) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1buoYX-0002Pm-0K for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2016 18:32:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1buoYS-0000w4-Qj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2016 18:32:51 -0400 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:45010) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1buoYR-0000u2-HX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2016 18:32:48 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87fuo0hrmy.fsf@elephly.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:21:25PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Guix, > > a while ago I noticed that the software provided by the “vmpk” package > doesn’t work. It is supposed to create a window displaying a MIDI > keyboard that can be used to send MIDI messages to other applications > via JACK, but it does nothing at all. I tried to debug this but I > cannot seem to find the cause. > > Now that we have “jack-keyboard”, which works just fine, I’m thinking > about just removing “vmpk”. What do you think? Any objections? I don't have any opinions about vmpk, but I think it would be good to ask upstream for advice about the buggy behaviour, if there is active upstream maintenance. But, I know that means doing more work for a package you don't need anymore. So I understand if you prefer to remove the package.