Bug#107246: a hopefully good solution for the zcode games
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:24:42AM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> I'll write and package a generic installer for zcode from the
> if-archive (this is almost done). Should go to contrib, I think.
>
> Then I'll upload empty versions of these packages that will depend on
> the installer and will use it to download & install their game.
> Purging these later will not remove the games as they are owned by the
> installer now. Therefore these dummy packages can be safely removed by
> users. After the next release they are removed from the archive as well.
>
> Any gripes or suggestions?
Sounds great. As you seem to realise, there's really no reason to have
a small number of non-free games in Debian's archive when they're just
one file each from if-archive. Your suggestion seems to be what I should
have done in the first place...
Please go ahead.
Thanks,
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