Re: RFS: fceux - Cross-platform Famicom/NES emulator (updated package, old source package was named fceu)
Hello yet again,
I've managed to fix the crash with nvidia binary drivers, by patching
FCEUX. The patch has been submitted to upstream.
I've also adjusted the package description slightly, and made the
source package support parallel=n and noopt in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. The
files can be found at the old location, at
http://mentors.debian.net/package/fceux . As can be seen, for some
reason the watch file appears to have failed this time, but it has not
been changed in quite a while, and it works for me. It might've been
sourceforge that failed to work for a second.
Regards, Alexander
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Alexander Toresson
<alexander.toresson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hell again,
>
> I forgot to CC Joe.
>
> I also forgot to talk about the heisenbug I've been chasing the last
> few days, which appears to be caused by newer binary-only nvidia
> drivers. Basically, they often cause a crash within a minute of
> loading a game. Details can be read at:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29448314
> I also found this bug in launchpad which I believe describes the same bug:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fceux/+bug/881743
>
> Regards, Alexander
>
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Alexander Toresson
> <alexander.toresson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear mentors,
>>
>> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.1.5+dfsg-1 of the
>> package "fceux", which was before called "fceu". FCEUX is a very
>> capable NES (Original 8-bit Nintendo) emulator, with a GTK and SDL
>> front-end.
>> Joe Nahmias <jello@debian.org> is the current holder of the ITP of
>> this package, but nothing has happened so far during the 1.5 years he
>> has been holding the ITP. I have been in contact with him, and he has
>> stated that he intends to package FCEUX. He stated that he wanted to
>> wait for upstream to make some changes though, before packaging it. I
>> have not found any reason to not package it.
>> He also stated that he sees no reason to not have both FCEU and FCEUX
>> in Debian, and Frédéric Brière also commented that FCEUX may not be a
>> drop-in replacement for FCEU. I have therefore made FCEUX not build on
>> the fceu source package, but has given it its own source package
>> "fceux".
>>
>> It builds these binary packages:
>> fceux - Cross-platform Famicom/NES emulator
>>
>> The package appears to be lintian clean.
>>
>> The upload would fix these bugs: 612245 (a lot less than before, as
>> this doesn't close the many bugs that replacing FCEU with FCEUX would
>> close)
>>
>> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
>> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/package/fceux
>> - dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fceux/fceux_2.1.5+dfsg-1.dsc
>>
>> There has been a lot of changes between this source package and the
>> latest fceu source package created by me. This has been based on input
>> from Joe Nahmias, Frédéric Brière, Gregor Herrmann. These changes are:
>> * Do not build a transition package for fceu, and create the "fceux"
>> source package instead of using the "fceu" one.
>> * +dfsg suffix to version added, as the source tarball was repackaged
>> due to license issues.
>> * Top-level directory name changed to "fceux-2.1.5.orig".
>> * A menu entry and a .desktop file were added.
>> * Stray debian/stamp-patched removed.
>> * The patch enable-building-with-gcc-4.6.2-and-newer has been renamed
>> to enable-building-with-zlib-1.2.5.2-and-newer, as this was the real
>> cause of the problem. Also, the URL to the sourceforge bug has been
>> corrected.
>> * I switched to using dh for building the package.
>> * Honor CXXFLAGS and CPPFLAGS, to correctly build with hardening.
>> * Fix a name clash between a local variable named "socket" and the
>> system's socket().
>> * Add some missing functions to which calls were made in an unused
>> template, which probably was instantiated now that hardening is used.
>> (this is my best guess as for the cause)
>> * Now closes the fceux ITP bug, instead of lots of bugs in fceu.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Alexander Toresson
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