We had an unscheduled session as advertised on #debian-games IRC, please at least read the "Joining the Team" discussion and reply if you have any objections to that. It was good to meet many other team members at DebConf who just couldn't attend the BoF. 2025-07-17 13:15 (CEST) Who --- emorrp1: not much recently, but helped get corsix-th in, Mindustry not in Debian (pending gradle), ideas about luanti (née minetest) mods, libregaming.org tchet: got interested thanks to g-d-p, wants to work on standardising games team packages - has uploaded all to salsa, wiki needs overhauling, works on utilities adjacent to games e.g. cabextract, plib, more the infrastructure than the games boutil: interested in playing games - please join libregaming.org, is there any list of games wanted in debian? multiple lists in wiki but prioritise RFP/ITP, vv221 suggests wiki list of just RFP, tchet says udd custom query, should usertag the current RFP/ITPs vv221: play.it - packaging commercial only games, trialling maintainer team in Uploaders of QA team (no-one complained yet), keen to keep abandoned 90s libs, ceaser3 upstream co-ord review what's missing, has successfully ressurected upstream only by getting in touch with them, recommends deprioritising hostile upstreams to avoid warnings "don't use debian package version" Huitsi: playing games (Mindustry), developer of games, was trying to package libstrangle but stopped playing the game that used it Problems -------- blockers: * Mindustry - gradle * vv221 - time! * runescape - dead? rm? but emorrp1 played recently * games written for mono-runtime - in progress vv221 (threatening removal of unneeded parts was successful in getting co-maintainers) RFH: in 1 month 68 gcc-15 bugs will be RC for forky, not expecting upstream help, vv221 might triage and at least forward to alive upstreams Joining the Team ---------------- emorrp1: had multiple conversations over DebConf with individual maintainers (e.g. tachi) of small games that just keep working - Q: how do I join the games team, should I add my personal package to team maintenance? A: If you say you're in the games team, you're in - please add your game for discoverability tchet: there are no Team rules, we should be explicit on the wiki bare debian in git? but tag2upload? AOB --- debian/watch: emorrp1 enjoys, tchet suggests just using repology (in the wider debian package), there is pending v5 that should mean less busywork when upstreams change url structure vv221: has plans, but don't require co-ordination tchet: personal release goal, but doesn't want to ask for help; dream for g-d-p/play.it kde discover backend to synthesise fictional installs - appstream? wants to talk to smcv smells list, copyright review - lrc, licenserecon we need testers - people to play the games finished: 14:25
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