"Marek M." <wansti@gmx.de> (21/01/2007): > Hi Cyril, Hi Marek, > I've seen that you put SuperTux 0.3.0 into Debian Experimental. I > followed the discussion on the mailing list about the license issues > with some of the data files. We're currently working on resolving > those issues by replacing problematic files; I suggest you wait with > accepting 0.3.0 in unstable until this is finished. Darren Salt notified us, many thanks for your working on it! > Since 0.3.0 is only a preview release, I also suggest that you don't > replace SuperTux 0.1.3 with it but rather add it as an additional > package, so people can choose which version to install. People who > just want to play the game might be better off sticking to the old > version for now. Please find attached my answer to the mail Ingo sent me yesterday. Having two packages to maintain in parallel in the same distribution (say: supertux and supertux-snapshot in experimental) isn't that cool. I'd rather stick to old-known-to-work-fine version in unstable at the moment, and preview-version in experimental. Thanks for your interest. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois
Ingo Ruhnke <grumbel@gmail.com> (21/01/2007): > SuperTux 0.3.0 is a unfinished development version, it is meant as a > preview of the engine, not as a fully playable release of the game. So > it should not replace SuperTux 0.1.3/Milestone1, the only fully > playable release of SuperTux, in Debian. ACK. And as far as I saw by playing it myself, and by getting feedback on the Debian Games devel list, that is what I understood. ;-) > Providing the SuperTux 0.3.0 as an alternative package (named > supertux-0.3, supertux-snapshot or whatever) beside SuperTux 0.1.3 > would however be fine. At the moment, newer versions are impossible to get pushed into testing (future stable), and one might use either unstable or experimental to upload new releases. I opted for an upload to experimental, so that unstable users can choose the version they want (experimental is not a version on its one, it is just a place to fetch additional or more recent packages from). BTW, you can check the version available for each distribution on my QA page[1] — or on the pkg-games team's one[2], which is a bit longer to load. ;-) 1. http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr 2. http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org I guess that we (pkg-games team) won't upload a package to unstable until you have released a ``stable'' version. Thanks for your note. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois
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