Re: New, fully-maintained port of Colossal Cave Adventure
On 3 June 2017 at 18:23, Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> wrote:
> Am 03.06.2017 um 19:00 schrieb Eric S. Raymond:
>> Is there a *BSD* BSD Games maintainer upstream of the Debian packaging?
>
> Unfortunately our bsdgames source package is severely outdated. AFAIK
> the folks from netbsd.org are the actual maintainers of bsdgames but
> perhaps someone else on the list can clarify this information.
Hi Markus,
I remember looking into the maintainability of the bsdgames package
after your [helpful support] last year, but gave up without writing
down my research. Unfortunately it's ideally not as simple as just
updating from the barely changed [NetBSD] sources, so Debian really
could do with a new standalone "upstream" to manage the relevant
contributions.
In general I found [OpenBSD] to have more recent commits than NetBSD,
though mostly tidying with not much deviation. I would argue that
**FreeBSD** code is the best maintained e.g. [morse] supports
/dev/speaker and many more characters which fixes [234107]. The main
downsides being that they [unbundled /src/games] and, relevant to this
thread, a vastly [reduced collection] from v5, dropping adventure.
The current [README] does list the subset of games used for DFSG,
though that git packaging only concerns itself with recent history,
post-[joeyh]. That's all I can remember/dredge up, so I hope this
helps anyone coming later to pick it up.
--
Phil Morrell
[helpful support]:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2016/02/msg00010.html
[NetBSD]: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/games/
[OpenBSD]: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/games/
[morse]: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/usr.bin/morse/morse.c
[234107]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=234107
[unbundled /src/games]:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/8cc71b38c27f2be8ba4c227078a51c63847a89de
[reduced collection]:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/e41bd31debce476e2f6ae864651c7380bea2cdbb
[README]: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-games/bsdgames.git/tree/README
[joeyh]: https://github.com/vattam/BSDGames
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