Re: Fwd: O: 3dchess -- 3D chess for X11

[Barry deFreese <bddebian@comcast.net>]

Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm forwarding the orphan message (#363498) for the package 3dchess which is 
> currently 'maintained' by the QA Team.
> Since it is a kind-of popular game I believe it should be better maintained by 
> the team or by someone who has real interest in maintaining it.
>
> I don't read the list so in case anyone wants to contact me please explicitly 
> mail me.
>
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>
> Subject: O: 3dchess -- 3D chess for X11
> Date: Wednesday 19 April 2006
> From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
> To: submit@bugs.debian.org
>
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
>
> The current maintainer of 3dchess, Stephen Stafford <bagpuss@debian.org>,
> has orphaned this package.
>
> If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- see
> http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed
> instructions how to adopt a package properly.
>
> Some information about this package:
>
> Package: 3dchess
> Binary: 3dchess
> Version: 0.8.1-11.1
> Priority: optional
> Section: games
> Maintainer: Stephen Stafford <bagpuss@debian.org>
> Build-Depends: debhelper, xaw3dg-dev, libx11-dev, libxpm-dev, libxt-dev, x-dev
> Architecture: any
> Standards-Version: 3.5.9.0
> Format: 1.0
> Directory: pool/main/3/3dchess
> Files:
>  0bf9de72970d784fd2ce8f198c07e4fb 615 3dchess_0.8.1-11.1.dsc
>  5390c60953446e541d9455d9c4e38ca1 46371 3dchess_0.8.1.orig.tar.gz
>  a82f3df1eb941f55fb8f41eece0c66b2 4846 3dchess_0.8.1-11.1.diff.gz
>
> Package: 3dchess
> Priority: optional
> Section: games
> Installed-Size: 144
> Maintainer: Stephen Stafford <bagpuss@debian.org>
> Architecture: amd64
> Version: 0.8.1-11.1
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libx11-6, libxext6, libxmu6, libxpm4, libxt6, 
> xaw3dg (>= 1.5+E-1)
> Filename: pool/main/3/3dchess/3dchess_0.8.1-11.1_amd64.deb
> Size: 35280
> MD5sum: 03b731e81ac19ba17ee3253245827cc0
> Description: 3D chess for X11
>  3 dimensional Chess game for X11R6.  There are three boards, stacked
>  vertically; 96 pieces of which most are the traditional chess pieces with
>  just a couple of additions; 26 possible directions in which to move.  The
>  AI isn't wonderful, but provides a challenging enough game to all but the
>  most highly skilled players.
> Tag: game::board:chess, interface::3d, use::gameplaying, x11::application
>
>
> Christoph
>   
Raphael,

Hi.  I've been picking up a lot of the orphaned games for the games team.

Anyone object to us picking this one up?

Thanks,

Barry deFreese