Bug#815170: love: New upstream version available

[Bart van Strien]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 03:00:47PM +0100, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> 1,4M love_0.9.1.orig.tar.gz
> 114M ../Downloads/docs.zip (from https://love2d.org/wiki/Main_Page)
> 
> -> the documentation has outgrown the core engine so much,
> that I guess it should deserve it's own independant source package
> & that love-doc should be dropped from src:love.

The documentation download contains the entire wiki, this includes
documentation on older versions, informations about various (user-made)
games and libraries, tutorials, etc. Unfortunately I don't think we have
a download that contains just the current information, nor the ability
to build one automatically. In my opinion it's perfectly reasonable to
split the documentation off, or even to drop it altogether, but I know
very little about debian packaging policy.

If you're looking for a longer-term solution, I could look into having a
more focused documentation download, but that will probably take (quite)
some time.

Bart

Bug#815170: love: New upstream version available

[Bart van Strien]

Dear Maintainers,

Since the last message in this bug, LÖVE version 0.10.2 was released,
yet the version in the repositories is still stuck at 0.9.1.

I noticed tracker.debian.org lists this package as depending on a
package that needs a new maintainer --- DevIL --- so this might be what is
holding you back. Fortunately, in version 0.10.0, the dependency on
DevIL was dropped.

I would also like to note that ever since the release of 0.9.1, every
release is accompanied by a post on an RSS feed, located at [1]. Maybe
this could prove useful for automatic release tracking in the future?

Sincerely,

Bart van Strien

[1]: https://love2d.org/releases.xml