-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Are people in pkg-games interested in having contrib packages rather like java-package (that produce non-distributable binary .debs for proprietary games) in the archive/under team maintenance, and would some DD be willing to sponsor such packages?
Over Christmas I did some work on FHS-compatible packaging for Epic's Unreal Tourmament (the original 1999 one); I now have a contrib package called unrealtournament-assistant (inspired by module-assistant) containing source tarballs for non-distributable .debs, which can be built using the Loki Games v436 installer, the UTPG (community-maintained) v451 semi-official patch, and various freely downloadable mods, plus an Unreal Tournament CD. The idea is that I'll write a script called unrealtournament-assistant which will automate the process of producing these .debs (in the same sort of way as module-assistant). I thought I'd get an idea of how much interest pkg-games has in this before I filed an ITP, though. The unrealtournament-assistant source package also produces a contrib package called unrealtournament, which depends on unrealtournament-bin and unrealtournament-data (the main non-distributable .debs), and contains launcher scripts and man pages (written by me rather than by Loki Games, so, distributable). Other games that could reasonably get the same treatment include Unreal Tournament 2003/2004 and Quake 3 (using the ioquake3 engine, which I notice pkg-games has packages for that aren't in the archive). Regards, Simon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHhOVfWSc8zVUw7HYRAuxsAKCKRcaHVtx4rIQc51yxFq1d4vzUnACfSQeH t2cndJATFrHMWxCH05doAWE= =/h6o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Pkg-games-devel mailing list Pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-devel