Rosegarden-1.2.4 released, new src RPM package uploaded

Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <[email protected]> Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:14:03 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.cooker.amd64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Following today's release [1] of Rosegarden-1.2.4 [2], I've uploaded to  
ftp.mandriva.com/incoming/cooker a new source RPM package. The 1.2.4 release 
addresses several issues with the prior 1.2.3 feature release.  1.2.4 
introduces no new application features, only bug fixes.

This RPM source package uses the internal scons-mini build system, so it 
doesn't depend on an external scons, only Python is required. I hope this 
makes it easier to build this application. I've also changed the name of the 
package, according with the new name policy from upstream. This is a 
quotation from the README file: With this release the name of the project has 
officially changed to Rosegarden.  Formerly it was referred to as 
Rosegarden-4 in order to mark the current application as newer than the 
long-obsolete "Rosegarden 2.1", a quite different and more basic application. 

This RPM source package explicitly requires dssi-devel [3] at build time, 
which is a contrib package already in Cooker. This is a problem, because 
Rosegarden is in the main section and should not depend on another package in 
the contrib section. One solution is to remove the "requires: dssi-devel" 
line, and the package should build fine without any other spec modification 
and with no DSSI support, but this may be disappointing for many Rosegarden 
users, who have liked the DSSI synth plugins as a very nice and useful 
extension for Rosegarden, so I would be very grateful if you move dssi and 
dssi-devel to the main section and we can enjoy a full featured Rosegarden on 
Mandriva 2007.

[1] Rosegarden-1.2.4 Announcement:
http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-announce/2006-July/000816.html

[2] Rosegarden's official site:
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com

[3] DSSI
http://dssi.sourceforge.net/

Regards,
Pedro