On Sun, 07. Jul 14:07 Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@member.fsf.org> wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 06:38:46 Markus Koschany wrote: > > I haven't followed the discussion about data.debian.org and i am not > > sure if we need it for UFO. > > That's a topic to discuss... Somehow I missed everything related to > "data.debian.org" [1] and I couldn't find much information to learn > about the problem. Is there a good summary somewhere? There seems to be no recent information about this topic. Though i remembered that it was discussed on debian-devel two months ago. Someone wanted to package large chunks of scientific data. [1] Probably we should contact the ftp-masters before we introduce the game and ask them for their opinion although i think, if we can split the data, packaging the game should be O.K. > Another game that I was considering is "vegastrike" for which we have > a RFP [2]. But to my frustration it turned out that game used to be in > Debian for some time but then it was removed [3] because its data is > too big(!). To me explanation why it was necessary was not clear at > all as I don't quite understand what is the problem (specifically). > Me too. I had a look at [2] and the sources consist of ~440 MB data and ~230 MB optional data. That is about the same size as Red Eclipse for example. If Vegastrike is stable and there are no other show-stoppers, i am in favour of adding the game to the to-do list. [...] > I'm deeply concerned about this issue. There are handful of free > graphics-rich games and we won't get far if we can't afford to host > even few of them. > It's a shame that we gave up on "vegastrike" so easily without even > trying to provide data downloader script or support for > "game-data-packager"... I also believe that we should strive for packaging high quality graphic-rich games and even if there was a constraint of disk space, supporting the download of free game data via game-data-packager would be better than doing nothing at all IMO. > > In short, looks like a promising and complex free software game which > > could improve our games portolio for sure. > > I think it could be a strategic goal to package more beautiful games > of those that we can distribute. I dream to make Debian as good for > gaming as it is for other fields of endeavour... +1 I think most of us will agree that high quality graphics are often missing from free software games. But those data files are not only suitable for games, often you can use or combine them with other projects. We are lacking free data so packaging such games is a great opportunity to remedy those shortcomings. Regards, Markus [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/04/msg00677.html [2] http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/getfiles/
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