Bug#673345: RFS: allegro4.4/2:4.4.2-1 [ITA] -- portable library for cross-platform game and multimedia development

[Tobias Hansen <tobias.han@gmx.de>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

  Dear mentors,

  I am looking for a sponsor for the package "allegro4.4", that Andreas
Rönnquist <gusnan@gusnan.se> and myself want to adopt. allegro4.2 is
orphaned and to be replaced by this package. This involves a transition
and the Release Team gave their ok for an upload to unstable (transition
bug: [1]).

  We want to maintain the package with the Games Team, but since we are
running short of sponsors in the team, we also ask here for a sponsor to
get the package uploaded in time before the freeze.

See also:
- discussion on debian-devel-games [2]
- ITP bug [3]
- allegro4.2 O bug [4]

  If you want to sponsor the package, please enter your name in the
table on [5].

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/672142
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2012/05/msg00002.html
[3] http://bugs.debian.org/666524
[4] http://bugs.debian.org/626049
[5] http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Sponsors/Queue

 * Package name    : allegro4.4
   Version         : 2:4.4.2-1
   Upstream Author : Allegro developers
 * URL             : http://www.liballeg.org
 * License         : Allegro gift-ware license
   Section         : devel

  It builds those binary packages:

    allegro4-doc - documentation for the Allegro library
 liballeggl4.4 - library to mix OpenGL graphics with Allegro routines
 liballeggl4.4-dev - development files for the allgrogl library
 liballegro-doc - transitional dummy package
 liballegro4.2-dev - development files for the Allegro library
 liballegro4.4 - portable library for cross-platform game and multimedia
developme
 liballegro4.4-plugin-alsa - ALSA audio plugin for the Allegro library
 libjpgalleg4.4 - JPG loading addon for Allegro 4
 libjpgalleg4.4-dev - development files for the JPG loading addon for
Allegro 4
 libloadpng4.4 - PNG loading addon for Allegro 4
 libloadpng4.4-dev - development files for the PNG loading addon for
Allegro 4

  To access further information about this package, please visit the
following URL:

  http://mentors.debian.net/package/allegro4.4


  Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

    dget -x
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/allegro4.4/allegro4.4_4.4.2-1.dsc

  Or browse the git repository:

    http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-games/allegro4.4.git


  Changes since the last upload:

  [ Andreas Rönnquist ]
  * New upstream release (Closes: #666524)
  * Set Debian Games Team as maintainer, me and Tobias as uploaders
  * Remove packages allegro-examples and allegro-demo.
  * Added dependencies - OpenGL, Ogg Vorbis, zlib and libpng
  * Added the libs included in allegro 4.4 - libloadpng, jpgalleg and
alleggl
  * Removed the Svgalib and ESD plugin libraries
  * Fixes to the cmake build system
  * Fixed lintian warnings on the allegro-config man-page
  * debian/patches/fix_format_not_string_literal_error.patch:
    - Added patch to fix build errors
  * debian/patches/fix_addons_shared_linkage.patch:
    - Added patch required to fix shared linkage of addons
  * debian/patches/fix_endianness_spelling.patch
    - Added patch to fix spelling in the textconv binary
  * debian/patches/020_non-executable-stack.diff
    - Renamed to fix_non_executable_stack.patch.
  * debian/patches/040_allegro_cfg.diff
    - Renamed to add_debian_config_hints.patch.
  * Fixed linker flags

  [ Tobias Hansen ]
  * Exclude plugin libraries from dh_makeshlibs.
  * Enable OSS support.
  * Move ALSA plugin to separate package liballegro4.4-plugin-alsa.
  * Disable jack support.
  * Disable Linux console mode and remove build-dependency libsvga1-dev.
  * Rename doc package to allegro4-doc and make liballegro-doc
    a transitional dummy package.
  * Update README.Debian.
  * Remove build-dependency libesd0-dev.
  * debian/control - liballegro4.4-dev:
    - Remove Provides liballegro3.9.37-dev, liballegro-dev-common.
    - Add Conflicts liballegro4-dev and liballegro5-dev.
    - Add Provides liballegro4-dev.
  * debian/patches/020_asm_fixes.diff
    - Renamed to asm_fixes.patch.
  * debian/patches/050_manpage_syntax.diff
    - Removed. We can't fix every manpage syntax error anyway.
  * debian/patches/020_debug.diff
    - Removed. We don't understand the purpose and if it's only about
      debugging it can't be essential.
  * debian/patches/010_autoreconf.diff
    debian/patches/005_no_strip_no_export_dynamic.diff
    - Removed. Obsolete after switch from autotools to cmake.
  * debian/patches/005_no_unsharable.diff
    - Removed. We don't need to remove a static library and the output
      of allegro-config --libs is fine.
  * debian/patches/070_alsa_signed.diff
    debian/patches/060_fix_fnstsw.diff
    - Removed. Were applied upstream.
  * debian/patches/020_data_path.diff
    - Removed. Not needed anymore, because the compiled examples are
      no longer packaged.


  Regards,
   Tobias Hansen