paulliu: sorry if you're subscribed, and feel free to read the below for context, but the relevant part for you is: Please consider maintaining your minetest mods in version control, optionally as part of the games team so that we can help with updates e.g. maidroid development continues at https://gitlab.com/mazes_80/maidroid On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 04:27:48PM +0100, ROllerozxa wrote: > Debian packages a number of Luanti mods with the prefix "minetest-mod-". A > lot of these are very old versions and may contain non-free copyrighted > assets that have been replaced with free replacements in the latest > version. I don't know if the packages are even being maintained but I'm > sending this as a notification to whoever maintains them. Hi ROllerozxa, thank you for your help improving Debian. 17 of our packaged mods had stopped tagging releases, breaking our vcswatch dashboards. I've updated their metadata, so thanks to you the next time someone uploads, it'll be the latest version. As discussed on irc, the only packaged mod affected by nonfree issues was xdecor, but the debian version never included them and will now use xdecor-libre going forward. https://irc.minetest.net/minetest/2024-11-21 https://irc.minetest.net/minetest/2024-11-27 There was also some confusion about why we bother when there's now a builtin contentdb (which didn't exist when the first mods were packaged). I found this quote about minetest use in prisons: > The context of this is, I ship Debian to people in gaol, and they > can't just download random shit off the internet, or watch tutorial > videos on youtube. If I can't provide them a "basically fine" default > setup, there's no point shipping anything Games Team: I haven't attempted to (and have no plans to) package or test the latest versions, just pushed the replacement watchfiles to git in preparation. See also the luanti rename: https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/minetest/-/merge_requests/7
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