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Re: RFS: bubbbros



On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:46:38PM -0500, Daniel Milstein wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone would be interested in sponsoring bubnbros, a 2d 
> platform game that is a clone of "Bubble Bobble". Parts of it are released 
> under the MIT License and the rest is under the Artistic LIcense. Its ITP bug 
> number is 337559 and the package can be found at 
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/bubbros/ (the source package 
> name is bubbros because that is what upstream calls the tarball but the 
> binary packages are called bubnbros because that is what upstream calls the 
> binary and the program itself). Its upstream 
> source is http://bub-n-bros.sf.net. The package is split into a platform 
> independant part, which contains python scripts and data files, called 
> bubnbros-minimal, and a platform dependant part, which contains extension 
> libraries written in C which enhance the game but are not neccessary in order 
> to play it, called bubnbros.
> 
> Lintian and linda both complain about image files in /usr/lib. However, the 
> package source code depends on images and library files to be in the same 
> directory. If that directory was in /usr/share, then there would be an 
> executable in /usr/share and lintian and linda would still complain.
So its an upstream bug; have you mailed them about it?  Have you
consdiered how difficult it would be to fix?  Would be neat if you
could mail a patch to the upstream authors.

> Lintian also complains about the menu file being in the "old
> format", even though it follows the latest format from debian.org,
> as far as I can tell. There are no other lintian or linda errors.
I donno..

-- 
Clear skies,
Justin



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