Request for packaging: ChordPro

[ChordPro Team]

Dear all,

ChordPro is a simple text format founded in 1992 to notate music leadsheets,
in general songs with chords and lyrics. It is very popular and used by many
musicians all over the world.

ChordPro is also a program that uses this text format to produce
professionally looking PDF for the leadsheets. It is the successor of the
original program developed by the creators of the chordpro format.

The ChordPro is written in Perl and available on CPAN. There are packages
for Fedora, Microsoft Windows, and MacOS. Users on the forums often ask for
debian packages.

Would you be interested in creating a debian package for ChordPro? We are
not debian users ourselves but we can provide assistance and incorporate
packaging files in the repo.

Looking forward to hear from you,

Johan Vromans

Web site: https://chordpro.org
Git repo: https://github.com/ChordPro/chordpro
CPAN: https://metacpan.org/dist/App-Music-ChordPro

[Roland Rosenfeld]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2024, ChordPro Team wrote:

> ChordPro is a simple text format founded in 1992 to notate music
> leadsheets, in general songs with chords and lyrics. It is very
> popular and used by many musicians all over the world.

> Would you be interested in creating a debian package for ChordPro?
> We are not debian users ourselves but we can provide assistance and
> incorporate packaging files in the repo.

If nobody else is interested in this, I am (a little).
But it could take some time to do so, since this depends on
File::LoadLines, JavaScript::QuickJS, String::Interpolate::Named, and
Text::Layout, which are not available as Debian packages yet and have
to packaged before.

Anyway, I just did a little PoC to build these 5 packages and it
succeeded. Now a lot of fine tuning is necessary to build clean
packages from the sources...

Greetings
Roland