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Bug#961738: RFS: dragengine/1.1 -- Drag[en]gine Game Engine



On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 03:08:21PM +0200, Roland Plüss wrote:
> 
> On 5/30/20 2:00 PM, Tobias Frost wrote:
> > * Update to my hints list: There is a fox package, fox-1.6 [1]; you'll
> > know for
> > sure if it suitable…
> >
> > [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fox1.6
> >
> I've seen that. I need though fox1.7 since 1.6 is not compatible to 1.7
> . There had been API breaking changes in 1.7 .
> 
> If this is a vital problem please tell me. It's not possible to remove
> fox1.7 requirement unless various parts of the package are not build
> (namely the basic crash recovery module, the gui launcher and the entire
> IGDE).

Yes, this gonna be a problem due to the Debian Policy about embedded code
copies [1].

I see those options:
- talk to the fox-1.6 maintainer about updating the package to 1.7.
  (though I see that they generally stick to released versions and 1.7.* seems
  to be only development snapshots; a question to ask: is the 1.7 ABI stable already?)
- make the features optional that requires 1.7
- use only 1.6 features (listed for completeness, as you said you can't)

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#embedded-code-copies

-- 
tobi

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