[specimen] Debian patches

[james morris]

On 20/12/2009, "Thorsten Wilms" <t_w_ at freenet.de> wrote:

>On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 17:59 -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 09:14:56AM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>
>> > FOr instance it would make sense for whoever adopts specimen to also
>> > adopt phat which speciment depends on.
>>
>> Which I do intend to do. specimen is the only app in debian using it.
>
>The only other apps using Phat were Khagan and early versions of Nedko's
>zyn stuff.

And jack mixer is still using is (new version out the other day).

>http://khagan.berlios.de/
>http://home.gna.org/zynjacku/
http://home.gna.org/jackmixer/


>Khagan is unmaintained. Nedko doesn't use Phat anymore, I think. Loki
>tried to make the fan-sliders flicker-free, but didn't succeed (I mean
>to recall it led to a dependency on compositing and/or obscene CPU
>load). None of the stakeholders has an interest to ever get back to
>Phat, the project is dead and Specimen is the one remaining reason to
>care about it.
>
>
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