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Bug#1114589: closing 1114589

From	Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#1114589: closing 1114589
Date	2025-09-07 22:30 +0200
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Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 07, 2025 at 02:35:23PM +0200, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
>> close 1114589 0.8.14+really0.8.14-2
>> thanks
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Usage of libportmidi is completely gone.
>
> This is the bug that my patch fixes.
>
>> xjadeo built fine.
>
> That's true, but misses the point.
>
> While software has to build, that's just a baseline.
>
> Our users are our priority, and unnecessarily disabling features that 
> were present in a previous release is bad.
>
> This might break existing user setups, and the greyed-out menu entry is 
> also quite visible.

+1, because Adrian is right and lesser standards dilute the value of
Debian.  Debian is a real OS used by real people and not just a
source-package farm for other distributions.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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Bug#1114589: xjadeo: Fix building with the new portmidi Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2025-09-07 12:40 +0200
  Bug#1114589: closing 1114589 Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2025-09-07 16:10 +0200
    Bug#1114589: closing 1114589 Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> - 2025-09-07 22:30 +0200

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