Hi,

please drop the dependency on the fluid-soundfont-gs package, which by
means of Recommends pulls in the fluid-soundfont-gm package, which
installs another 150MB on my system.

Reading the `INSTALL.rst` file we learn that fluid-soundfont-gs "or
other soundfonts" are required "for MIDI support". Well, in Debian we
already have a virtual package that you may Depend on to make sure
that at least one suitable soundfont is installed:

  sf3-soundfont-gm

So, please do either add this as an alternative dependency to
fluid-soundfont-gs, or move fluid-soundfont-gs to Recommends. Or,
since it appears that lutris uses fluidsynth for rendering MIDI music,
let the latter take care of its soundfont dependencies itself (and
guess what, it depends on sf3-soundfont-gm).

Thanks!

Cheers,

 - Fabian

Forgot to mention that the actual file name of that soundfont, i.e.
`FluidR3_GS.sf2`, cannot be found anywhere in the lutris source code.
It appears that it is only installed to satisfy fluidsynth's need for
the presence of *any* soundfont, which fluidsynth already takes care of
itself.

Cheers,

 - Fabian

Hi,

Looking at the source code, lutris looks at files in /usr/share/sounds/sf2 and
/usr/share/soundfonts. And if no fonts exist it writes a warning, so
fluid-soundfont-gs definitely shouldn't be in Depends. In fact I think
it should be in Suggests (together with fluidsynth) because it's only
needed for some runners. And I would say most people use lutris with
wine/proton.
I was gonna contact upstream to clarify usage of these dependencies,
but they are busy working on a new release and disabled issues and PRs
on github.
I am gonna make a MR on Salsa hoping Dave would look at it.

Regarding sf3-soundfont-gm, it seems that sf2-soundfont-gm would fit
better here, but it still will not install fluid-soundfont-gs. So I am
gonna leave it as is

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lutris, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1110544@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Ilya Orlov <ilyaorlov124@gmail.com> (supplier of updated lutris package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 02:10:00 +0400
Source: lutris
Architecture: source
Version: 0.5.19-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Ilya Orlov <ilyaorlov124@gmail.com>
Closes: 1089561 1104524 1110544
Changes:
 lutris (0.5.19-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Patch: Remove check for new version (Closes: #1089561)
   * Move fluid-soundfont-gs and fluidsynth to Suggests
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