Bug#440607: ITP: steam-powered -- Valve's steam game content delivery system
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com>
* Package name : steam-powered
Version : 6
Upstream Author : Michael Gilbert
* URL : no website
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: shell
Description : Valve's steam game content delivery system
This package is a wrapper that makes it easy to install and run Valve's
Steam program via wine. The intent will be for this package to be a
part of the contrib archive. A preliminary version of the package has
been uploaded to debian-mentors for review and testing, [1]. There has
already been some interesting discussion on the mentors list. Please
read [2], [3], and [4] to get up to speed. I am looking forward to the
discussion and getting this package added to the archive.
Steam (www.steampowered.com) is a game content delivery system
developed by Valve software (http://www.valvesoftware.com). This is
a windows application, which is supported on your Debian system via
wine (http://www.winehq.org). Not all steam games work at this time,
but many do. Games that work very well include half-life,
counter-strike, half-life 2, and counter-strike: source. More
information about steam can be found at http://www.steampowered.com.
[1] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/s/steam-powered/
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/08/msg00592.html
[3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/08/msg00599.html
[4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/08/msg00601.html
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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