Hello, thanks for all the feedback. I have created a wiki page dedicated to the topic "removal of games" in case someone else is brave enough to mention this topic again, we can point the delinquent to some resources now. http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Removal I hope i have outlined all ideas and thoughts so far which are in favour of or against the removal of games and all the nuances in between. If i have missed something, please yell at me. Otherwise i am in line with Bart's, Jon's, Tobias' and Bas' opinion and i also think like Emmet that unique games should be preserved. However i can't see that the games which shall be removed fit in with the term 'unique'. They are merely mini games. My favorite example why removals make sense is LGeneral. The effort to bring the game back into shape was the same as to package a completely new game. Over many years nobody took care of the game. Debian has a strict policy when it comes to the freeness and quality of software. But then i ask myself why we are less strict when it comes to longtime orphaned packages which contain non-free content and besides are unusable? The old version 1.1.1 is still in unstable and would have been released with wheezy. Try it out and report back if you can play the game. It should strike us a little if users do not even bother to report the problem anymore. Regards, Markus
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