Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > At the time, I packaged it for myself. Then I saw the bug report and decided > to upload my packages to close it. I expected it to go into the archive and > close the bug immediately. However, this has turned out not to be the case. > I'm sorry for the confusion it caused which led to you duplicating effort. > > I am doubtful that this package will ever land in the archive though as I > have heard some second-hand disparaging comments about the size (300Mb) of > the package from ftp-admins. Maybe it shouldn't be in debian; I'm not sure. > > At any rate, it has now been sitting in the queue for a month. > > I have been considering replacing the uqm-voice and uqm-music packages with > a set of scripts which simply fetch the the datafiles from the upstream > website and install them. This way it would be more palatable to the > ftp-admins at a size of 20Mb. But, I would rather not since this would make > debian's uqm vulnerable to breakage by upstream moving or changing the data. Ah, I was wondering what the holdup was on this package. Why don't you upload uqm sans voices and music for debian. Then set up your own apt repository for the voice and music data. Or just the voices, iirc the music is not very big by itself. Then anyone who wants the voices can install a package from your apt repository, and those of us who just want to play super melee, or who grew up with the dos version with no voices, can get it right in debian. -- see shy jo
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