Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Andreas Rönnquist" <gusnan@gusnan.se>
* Package name : allegro4.4
Version : 4.4.2
Upstream Author : Shawn Hargreaves (shawn@talula.demon.co.uk) and
others, see AUTHORS file
* URL : http://www.liballeg.org/
* License : Allegro gift-ware license [1]
Programming Lang: C
Description : portable library for cross-platform game and
multimedia development
Me and Tobias Hansen have decided to do something about the situation
of the Allegro Game programmers library in Debian - Both packaging version
5.0 (ITP at [2]) and the newer versions, but also do something about
the situation of the older libs.
Allegro 4.2 which is packaged in debian has been abandoned upstream for
a long time, while 4.4 is still in maintenance mode upstream with the
occasional bug-fix coming.
Since there still are packages in Debian which uses the 4 series, we
would like to package 4.4 also, and in time get rid of the 4.2 version.
We intend to maintain Allegro under the games team and if anyone would
like to step up and help out, they would be most welcome.
best regards
/Andreas
[1] - http://www.liballeg.org/license.html
[2] - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612778
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