Re: Packaging Globulation 2

["Miriam Ruiz" <little.miry@gmail.com>]

2008/4/5, Bradley Arsenault <genixpro@gmail.com>:
> Hello. I'm the current maintainer of the game Globulation 2. We are
> currently in the 0.9.3 release candidate, and we are soon going to make an
> official release. 0.9.3, or Beta 3 as we call it, is going to be a major
> release, the changes from 0.9.2 to 0.9.3 have been almost exclusively bug
> fixes for more than a month, and we want to have packages on all major linux
> distributions on release day. We hope to rekindle the Globulation 2
> community with this move.
>
> We already have a Debian packager, however, he has since become lazy, almost
> non existent. We would like to host the glob2 beta 3 package on our website,
> as well as have it in the apt-get respitories. As the new maintainer, how
> should I go about this task? I want to get the Globulation 2 package to the
> widest demographic as close to release date as possible. We haven't set a
> release date, but its sometime within the next couple weeks.

Hi Bradley,

Thanks for your trust, I can try to talk with David, the current
maintainer, and ask him if he might want a helping hand with it, or if
he would like to package it collaboratively inside the Games Team.
I'll email him about it.

Greetings,
Miry