Re: starfighter bugs, source package

[Barry deFreese <bdefreese@debian.org>]

Barry deFreese wrote:
> Matthew Lockner wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'd be willing to at least look at some of the bugs listed for 
> > starfighter in the interests of a good faith effort toward keeping it 
> > maintained within Debian (with no guarantees I'd manage to fix any).  
> > It's a fun little game, it'd be a shame to lose it.  In a decade of 
> > usage I've never managed to wrap my head around Debian's arcane 
> > packaging methodologies, though, so any deliverables would likely 
> > come in the form of simple patches.
> >
> > I wanted to look over the source tonight, but it seems "apt-get 
> > source starfighter" doesn't work.  Any guesses what the story is on 
> > that?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Matthew Lockner
> Matthew,
>
> If you can help fix some of the issues, I'm happy to integrate them 
> into the packaging.  The biggest issue right now is going to be the 
> non-free data (music and images).
>
> And apt-get source starfighter should work unless you are running 
> testing, because it isn't in testing at the moment because of the RC 
> bug.  You can get it from unstable.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Barry deFreese
> Debian Games Team
>
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Moving this to debian-devel-games.

Matthew,

I've been looking at the Starfighter code this morning.  There is a lot 
of work to do on it with regards to the non-free music/icons/images (not 
to mention the 15+ bugs).  Unless you have a lot of time to spend 
tracking down some authors/licenses/copyright (or to find replacements 
for the non-free content), I don't think we have much of a choice but to 
remove Starfighter, at least for now.

I'm also not convinced that upstream even cares about Starfighter 
anymore unfortunately.

Thanks,

Barry deFreese
Debian Games Team