Control: severity -1 grave
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 08:39:32PM +0100, Anthony F McInerney wrote:
> There was supposed to be information in the README.debian, i must have
> somehow dropped it out. I'll pop that back in there.
Almost 5 years later there's not been another upload and this package is
still in the state where after installing it one will hit this when
trying to actually run it:
could not load texture data/notexture
could not find core textures
There's no useful indication of cause of the problem in the error
message, and no hints in the package description or README.Debian. Each
user needs to discover for themselves that the solution is to download a
file from upstream and pull it apart as "documented" by comments on this
ancient bug report.
I think the original "grave" severity is justified - in its current
state the sandboxgamemaker package really is "unusable or mostly so".
> I was also supposed to have a script sorted by now to either go with the
> package directly or as another package to download the external data.
> It was all pulled out to make it completely dfsg compliant and hit 'main'.
I think "contrib" is the appropriate section for this package. Without
the non-free data it seems this package is useless, and policy ยง2.2.2
says:
The *contrib* archive area contains supplemental packages intended
to work with the Debian distribution, but which require software
outside of the distribution to either build or function.
Including a downloading script for the non-free data should be OK in a
contrib package (provided that script itself is under a DFSG-compatible
licence).
If you've not uploaded in ~5 years because you're no longer interested
in maintaining this package, please orphan the package (or if you don't
know how, just say you want to orphan it and I or somebody else can).
Cheers,
Olly
