Bug#594800: 0ad beta 6 packages
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Vincent Cheng wrote:
>> I'll upload it to mentors.d.n later tonight or tomorrow if anyone
>> wants to take a second look at it.
>
> Refreshed my 0ad package and uploaded it to mentors.d.n:
>
> $ dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/0/0ad/0ad_0+r09786-1.dsc
Didn't review that yet and I probably won't get to it until late
August since I will be travelling.
> but for some reason dput segfaulted halfway through
That sounds like a python bug. You might want to enable core dumps on
your system so that you can file bugs about random crashes.
> http://releases.wildfiregames.com/0ad-r09786-alpha-unix-data.tar.xz
The upstream tarball contains a pre-built copy of the DejaVu font,
please ask them to remove that. Likewise for the other font, that
should be packaged separately from 0ad using the upstream project. It
is perfectly acceptable for upstream to include pre-built fonts in
their binary installers/packages for platforms with broken/missing
repository/dependency systems but the source packages and VCS should
not include non-source forms and should not contain embedded copies of
other projects.
http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/pagella
There doesn't appear be any suspicious metadata in the images.
A couple of the images are pre-rendered text. I wonder which font they
used and if it. IMO text should only be rendered at runtime since that
enables i18n and ensure that any fonts used on Debian systems are
DFSG-free.
IMO the small versions of the icons should be removed and the scaling
should happen either at runtime or buildtime. I think it would be nice
to convert the images to vector so that the UI can scale to any
resolution. The buttons dir contains only small versions, so I wonder
if there is some source code missing there.
There is a ZIP file in there too. It seems a bit rediculous to put a
compressed file inside the already compressed tarball and even more
rediculous to put such a file in a VCS (didn't look if it was there
too).
If I unpack the zip file I get a shitload of other stuff. I don't have
time to review the whole thing right now, but based on find | xargs
file there are some things that are not source code or not in
standard, modifiable formats, which is what the source package should
consist of.
The font stuff inside it weird. IMO this should be replaced by vector
fonts rendered at runtime. There are other images with pre-rendered
text that possibly was rendered using non-free fonts.
Also the ./public/art/LICENSE.txt file indicates that all the
materials from CGTextures are missing their source form.
I find it completely bizarre that they are using an Excel spreadsheet
to store techtree info. Does the game really require a Excel file
reading code??
Those xmb files look like binary versions of the corresponding xml
files. These should be generated at build time not stored in the
source tarball or VCS.
There are some weird binary formats. One of them contained a string:
"God Knows", perhaps that should be replaced with "God Knows WTF these
files are and how to modify them" ;)
I wonder about the DDS files. They can be opened in GIMP with gimp-dds
but their names seem to indicate that there are TGA files that are the
source form of them. IMO the DDS files should be created at
runtime/build time from their source TGA files, or the game should
simply switch to using the TGA files.
There are a bunch of pre-encoded Ogg files. I don't know what is the
source but Ogg definitely is not it. There should be some sort of
losslessly encoded audio or the project files for whatever DFSG-free
program generated these files.
There are two RAR files. RAR is a proprietary format that is not yet
uncompressible only using software in Debian main. There is a free
software decompressor implementation but it is not yet in Debian
(#619602) and I haven't been able to compile it yet. Please ask
upstream to not store these in the source package and not in the VCS
either.
--
bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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