[LAU] mididings alternative for ubuntu studio 20.04 and newer?

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Le 27/01/2021 à 02:27, Len Ovens a écrit :
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, Athanasios Silis wrote:
> 
>> I recently migrated to ubuntu studio 20.04 and was wondering why no
>> mididings package exists any more. When sure enough I has to do with
>> dropping python2 and the lack of maintainers for mididings.
>>
>> How have you handled this ? Is there an alternative or do you reinstate
>> python2 and build mididings ?
> 
> Can qmidiroute do what you need?

Maybe for basic routing, but mididings is way more powerful mod-able 
than qmidiroute is.

> 
> File a bug report with the mididings maintainer? To "reinstate" python2 
> in many distros means use an older version... go back to 18.04 or 
> something like that. or find a distro that still keeps older pythons.
> 

Didn't dig deep in python2/3 mess, and my live machine is not at home by 
now, but I do use Mididings in a Debian Bullseye uptodate, and it works 
like a charm. I don't remember having done anything about python2 and 
python3, and I do use both.

Still, mididings isn't in Debian Bullseye repository either, so I 
suppose it's goin to disappear from time to time. My version probably 
comes from when I first installed this machine years ago.

> 
> Bitrot is a thing. Any software without maintainance will just one day 
> not be usable.

What is it about bitrot? Will be stopped too?