On 13.06.2014 00:37, Michael Dorrington wrote: [...] >> It seems you never received my e-mail from January. >> >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2014/01/msg00053.html > > I received that email but failed to complete the actions before they > were done in Debian, my bad. I was hoping that Debian would pull the > work I'd done that was of use but Debian wanted me to identify the > differences that were of use, which I have failed to do so far. Ok, no worries. Just a ping from time to time would be nice so that I know you are genuinely interested in this package. Are you somehow involved with the upstream development of spring or just a passionate gamer? What's your motivation for working on spring? [...] > The latest official Debian build in unstable is 96.0. The official > Debian git repo is using 97.0 , which is the latest upstream tarball, > but not 97.0.1 which is latest tagged upstream nor is it > 97.0.1-18-gf1dd749 which the popular Zero-K mod/game is using in many of > its battlerooms. As far as I understand it, 97.0 is meant only as a > game/mod developers release to help in preparation for 98.0 which is why > 96.0 is the version available from Spring Download page > <http://springrts.com/wiki/Download>. I have recently imported 97.0 because tests showed that it worked quite flawlessly. I also think that 97.0 is just a developer version, so I wanted to wait until they announce the stable version on http://springrts.com/. I only watch official tarball releases at the moment. I think it's not maintainable over a long period of time to follow snapshots and special versions for certain spring games. > On a related note to that, I would like the packaging to allow multiple > versions of Spring to be installed side-by-side using the alternatives > system or similar to switch between them. This is because different > mods/games often require different Spring versions and when new versions > of Spring are released there is often a period where at least two > versions are in use. In theory that's a nice idea but you would have to tailor another spring source package because you can't build different versions from the same sources. Without a doubt unless you are really dedicated to this package it will consume a lot of time to package those different versions. I think it would be more helpful for the spring community if they could find a way to extend their support for one stable release instead of allowing the use of multiple different versions at the same time. [...] >> I also intend to get 98.0 into the next stable release. If you are >> really interested in helping with spring, I suggest to prepare this >> version based on the current packaging of spring in Debian as soon as >> the new release is available and add yourself to Uploaders. I can then >> review your changes. > > I give that a go then. I'll post on the list after 98.0 is released to > confirm I'm going ahead with packaging it based off the latest Debian > git commit. Ok great. I'm looking forward to it. Regards, Markus
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