Hi, after unsuccessful attempts to contact the maintainer of gnuchess, Martin Mitchell (he did not answer at all to my emails), I would like to propose a change to the packaging of gnuchess. Andreas Tille did at least do an NMU to update to version 5.03 which fixes several outstanding bugs. One remaining bug is that gnuchess does not use its opening book. This has in the meantime been separated from the upstream source, due to its enormous size. I propose that Debian follows this step and splits gnuchess into gnuchess and gnuchess-book. The book in the current version is completely architecture-independent, so this separation makes sense as it only has to be built on one architecture for all. Furthermore, the book is not bound to change with every new upstream version of gnuchess, so that people will not have to download it every time the code changes. I have put up sample source packages under
http://www.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de/lsix/geyer/gnuchess/debian and would be glad about any comments. The package gnuchess will only install gnuchess without any opening book (this might be changed to provide some small default opening book) and the package gnuchess-book builds and installs the book. (The build takes approximately one hour on my iBook with 500MHz PPC, gnuchess compiled just with -O2.) I am not an expert on Debian packets, but I have used debhelper before, and I started from the package by Andreas Tille. My interest in gnuchess comes from the fact that I am co-maintaining the upstream gnuchess release. It seems to me that the maintainer has no real interest in the package and before the NMU of Andreas Tille it was completely broken for several architectures. I would be willing to provide Debian packages but I am not a member of the Debian project (yet). Best regards, Lukas P.S.: Please Cc me on replies, I am not subscribed to this list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]