On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 19:45 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> Hi, do you still intend to package doomsday? I'd strongly
> discourage you to do so, or encourage you to work with Jamie
> Jones, who (as previously mentioned) already packages this
> game. There are DFSG issues to be discussed.
>
>
I certainly wouldn't mind some help. As Jon mentions there are some DFSG
issues. I'm now an upstream and am resolving them as best I can, while
providing my packages.
In a nutshell these are the issues that it faces, so you know what I
could use a hand with.
* DFSG issues with the jHeretic plugin (almost finished reimplementing
this, so it should be resolved upstream soon)
* DFSG issues with the jHexen plugin (This is a bit more involved work
for reimplementation)
* It is not 64bit clean. We could use a hand with that.
* Freedoom is not supported. We do not support enough Boom/MBF features
yet to run this excellent free iwad.
* We need to be able to use an external glbsp, if available, otherwise
fall back to the internal version.
* Packaging need to be re-worked. It should look like this:
deng-dev (for building plugins)
deng (the engine)
deng-plugin-jdoom (GPL plugin)
deng-plugin-jheretic (Not DFSG Free - should be in a 3rd party repo)
deng-plugin-jhexen (Not DFSG Free - should be in a 3rd party repo)
There will be other plugins that are not listed.
* It should be a smooth upgrade from the existing 3rd party repository
* It needs the snowberry launcher (python/wxwidgets) to be packaged.
I currently have no plans to submit an ITP on this while resolving the
DFSG issues if I am the sole maintainer. I would submit the ITP after
the DFSG issues are resolved, or if anyone would like to co-maintain it
with me.
Any questions, please reply, or ping me in #doomsday on irc.freenode.net
Regards,
Yagisan
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