Re: [fluid-dev] New debian/ubuntu package available for testing

[josh]

Hello Bernat,

Quoting Bernat Arlandis i Mañó <address@hidden>:
> It installs and works ok, but building the package gives these warnings:
>
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libpthread.so.0 could be avoided
> if "debian/fluidsynth/usr/bin/fluidsynth" were not uselessly linked
> against it (they use none of its symbols).


This makes sense, since libfluidsynth 1.0.9 depends on it, but not the  
fluidsynth executable.  Future versions of FluidSynth might not depend  
on libpthread at all and use gthread instead.  The one component that  
is missing though, from switching to gthread entirely, is a portable  
way to set thread scheduling priorities.  So libpthread may end up  
still being used.  gthread has a function for setting thread  
priorities, but I don't think it will use SCHED_FIFO on Linux.  It  
would be nice if there was some portable way to indicate to the system  
a desired application latency and the OS would do what was needed to  
accomplish that.


> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libncurses.so.5 could be avoided
> if "debian/libfluidsynth1/usr/lib/libfluidsynth.so.1.1.3" were not
> uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).
>
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on librt.so.1 could be avoided if
> "debian/libfluidsynth1/usr/lib/libfluidsynth.so.1.1.3" were not
> uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).


I thought ncurses was a requirement of readline.  Perhaps that is no  
longer the case.  librt also seems required for scheduling assignment,  
so I'm also not sure why that is indicated as not being used.


> You should fix these for Debian and fix them upstream too for future  
>  releases.
>
> I can't install the -dev package since it depends on
> libjack0.100.0-dev, this is a dummy transitional package, you should
> depend on libjack-dev instead.
>
> Now that we're at it, QSynth is orphaned, aren't you interested on
> maintaining it too? ;)
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Bernat Arlandis i Mañó

Cheers.

Josh