Re: Request for gnuchess packaging change
Lukas Geyer <geyer@ml.kva.se> writes:
> Hi,
>
> after unsuccessful attempts to contact the maintainer of gnuchess, Martin
> Mitchell (he did not answer at all to my emails), I would like to propose
I did some work on it and send some mails to the BTS about gnuchess a
few month back concerning the long building time of the book.dat and
64 Bit issues. I also made a patch to split the book.dat into a
seperate package.
At that time the maintainer was quite responsive and said he would
wait for upstream to splitthe book.dat and binaries before adopting
that change too.
Strange that he's quite now that happened.
> a change to the packaging of gnuchess. Andreas Tille did at least do an
> NMU to update to version 5.03 which fixes several outstanding bugs. One
> remaining bug is that gnuchess does not use its opening book. This has in
> the meantime been separated from the upstream source, due to its enormous
> size. I propose that Debian follows this step and splits gnuchess into
> gnuchess and gnuchess-book. The book in the current version is completely
> architecture-independent, so this separation makes sense as it only has to
> be built on one architecture for all. Furthermore, the book is not bound
> to change with every new upstream version of gnuchess, so that people will
> not have to download it every time the code changes. I have put up sample
> source packages under
>
> http://www.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de/lsix/geyer/gnuchess/debian
>
> and would be glad about any comments. The package gnuchess will only
> install gnuchess without any opening book (this might be changed to
> provide some small default opening book) and the package gnuchess-book
> builds and installs the book. (The build takes approximately one hour on
> my iBook with 500MHz PPC, gnuchess compiled just with -O2.) I am not an
> expert on Debian packets, but I have used debhelper before, and I started
> from the package by Andreas Tille.
I heard that the build would be around 15-20 minutes on a system
similar your cpu. Well, you never know. Still much better than the 1-2
days it was before the hashing of book positions.
> My interest in gnuchess comes from the fact that I am co-maintaining the
> upstream gnuchess release. It seems to me that the maintainer has no real
> interest in the package and before the NMU of Andreas Tille it was
> completely broken for several architectures. I would be willing to provide
> Debian packages but I am not a member of the Debian project (yet).
MfG
Goswin
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