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Re: ITP: gnocatan



Ok, folks, here's the deal with Gnocatan.

The current release is 0.5.0, which is sitting at
http://gnocatan.sourceforge.net. The Gnocatan source tree even
has a target for producing a rather reasonable set of .debs.
This work was done by Andrew J. Heroff <aheroff@mediaone.net>.
However, Gnocatan has never been uploaded to Debian.

I spoke with several Gnocatan folks before my Intent To Package, and
since then I've spoken with several more. This includes the original
developer (David Cole), some of the current upstream maintainers, and
Andrew Heroff. They do not wish Gnocatan to be included with Debian
yet, until a few bugs have been fixed. (The game client crashes under
certain conditions, which can arise during normal play.)

Personally, I think Gnocatan would do just fine Debian's unstable
tree, perhaps with a Release Critical bug filed to prevent it from
entering stable until appropriate maturity is reached. Because the
license is GPL, I could go ahead and "facilitate its uploading"
through my sponsor anyway. However, I feel it is far more appropriate
to respect upstream's wishes.

I have high hopes that a future release will be deemed acceptable by
the developers, and uploaded either via Andew Heroff or me. Andrew is
interested in keeping his hands on the .debs. I don't know yet if he
is interested in becoming a Debian Maintainer, so there may or may not be
a roll for me. I'm sorry I got your hopes up with a somewhat premature
ITP.

In summary: Gnocatan will be uploaded to Debian in a future
release, when the developers think it is ready. If you can't wait, 
get the 0.5.0 .debs from http://gnocatan.sourceforge.net.

Who knows, maybe I'll be an official maintainer by the time
Gnocatan is good-to-go.

Jeff

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> On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 10:08:21AM +1000, Frank Copeland wrote:
> > Sebastian Rittau wrote:
> 
> > >Sorry to disappoint you, but gnocatan already seems to be packaged:
> 
> > I think you'll find that Gnocatan was packaged by its author Dave Cole, but
> > it is not (yet) part of the Debian distribution.
> 
> Ah, now that you mention it I remember having downloaded Gnocatan
> somewhere. So, it's good to see someone putting it into Debian.
So let Jeff Breidenbach <jeff@jab.org> do the work he was intendet to do!
Hey boys that are great news after coming from holidays.  I newer noticed
the existence of the free program of my and my wifes most beloved
board games.  Now the only reason for a dos partition to play the
DOS-game (which doesn't run in DosEmu) will vanish.  Hope to see the
package soon here.



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