Uploadeing debian-junior? (Was: Tasks-Web pages for Debian Junior)

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

Hi,

this mail of mine form last month did not gathered any answer.  So I'm
a little bit unsure what to do.  Here some more comments what I did and
what I would do if nobody disagrees:

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Andreas Tille wrote:

> > Missing or avoided packages:
> >  freeciv
> >  freecol (v0.7.3-4 available)
> >  heroes
> >  lavaps
> >  lincity-ng (v1.1.2-1 available)
> >  lmemory
> >
> > Well, freeciv is a transitional package only.  Shouldn't we depend on
> > freecol instead?
>
> Instead?  No, these are different games.  I'd suggest to depend from
> freeciv-client-gtk instead.

I have set:
  Depends: freeciv-client-gtk | freeciv-client-sdl

> It is used by the Debian Edu project to set a flag about things which
> are interesting but need some further decision.  I added these two
> because I think they definitely belong to the task but wanted to leave
> you the final decision.  Feel free to turn this into Recommends / Suggests
> whatever you feel apropriate.

I just have set
  Ignore: lincity-ng, freecol
to make you aware that something is missing in the tasks file.  If nobody
disagrees I increase from "Ignore" to "Depends".

> > Same with lincity/lincity-ng.  What's up with that?
>
> Well, I think the best idea is
>
>   Recommends: lincity-ng | lincity
>
> IMHO lincity-ng is the better free clone (as long as the official freed
> sources are not ported to Debian).

If nobody disagrees I will follow this idea.

> > I guess we need to depend on heroes-sdl now.
>
> I do not know this game - just add it to the list of dependencies ...

I have set in arcade :
   Depends: heroes-ggi | heroes-sdl

> > There's nothing to replace lavaps, afaik, and lmemory
> > I'm going to work on today to fix its FTBFS so it can re-enter lenny.
>
> Fine.

Hmmm, lavaps is tagged patch - so where is the problem to NMU?

For lmemory you have done #476024, but #486534 seems o hang around while
also featuring the tag patch - so where is the problem here?

> > The other thing that concerns me is the version#.  You have
> > debian-junior at version 1.12, yet junior-arcade is now 1.12.  Don't we
> > need to bump that up to 1.13, then?
>
> Sure.  It was just a mistake and it's fixed in SVN now.

If you ask me we should go for an upload of the new debian-junior
source soon.  The rationale is that it requires editing override file
and this takes some time.  So we are quite sharp to the Lenny freeze.
IMHO there is no need to wait for lavaps and lmemory because I asked
release manager for reuploading metapackages for Debian Med and
Debian EDU once the package set for Lenny is fexed (so after the freeze)
with the rationale that we want to include all interesting packages
for the CDD.  So if you ask me we should upload now.

Anybody thinking this is no good idea?

Kind regards

           Andreas.

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