I'm interested in becoming a Debian developer. I'd like to work on gnushogi as an initial package, and I have set an ITA on it. Gnushogi doesn't have any bugs filed against it, but I have the following questions: Gnushogi generates the binary package xshogi, a simulation of Shogi, a Japanese game similar to european chess. The traditional pieces are marked with Kanji, Japanese language ideograms. The program has an option to use a slightly more western style symbols. The menu entry currently set up for Xshogi runs the program with Japanese symbols. I think it would be nice to have two menu options, one to invoke the program as now labelled "Xshogi (Kanji)" and another menu item "xshogi (western)" with the non-Kanji symbols. Is this a reasonable thing to do? Secondly, there's no bug filed, but the package tracking system pages lists that the package hasn't gone into testing because it seems that there's a build error on "arm" architecture. One of the files generates the following error: pattern.c:506: fatal error: internal consistency failure First of all, does this mean that the package isn't being pushed out on _any_ architecture because of this one failure? If that's true, in the absense of any ability to reproduce this error, is it a reasonable short-term work-around to disable building the package for arm until the error can be weeded out? Thanks for any advice. Sincerely, Craig Steffen -- craig@craigsteffen.net public key available at http://www.craigsteffen.net/GPG/ current goal: use a CueCat scanner to inventory my books career goal: be the first Vorlon Time Lord
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