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Bug#673999: marked as done (RFP: opendungons -- a new package for an DK-style game.)

Your message dated Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:45:51 +0100
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and subject line Re: RFP: opendungons -- a new package for an DK-style game.
has caused the Debian Bug report #673999,
regarding RFP: opendungons -- a new package for an DK-style game.
to be marked as done.

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Package: opendungeons.deb
Severity: high


Hi, we try to get packages for major linux distros. 
The current git repository is at git://opendungeons.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/opendungeons/opendungeons
All the code is distributed under GPLv3. 
Build info is at http://opendungeons.sourceforge.net/w/index.php/Download#Building_from_source.


Tomasz Luchowski.

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Hi,

According to the post by Øyvind Larsen Nygård and my own tests, I
don't deem OpenDungeons to be worth packaging at the moment.

Packaging software is not completely free for a distribution: people
has to spend time packaging, reviewing its quality, updating and
maintaining it for years, fixing security issues when they appear...
Every package also uses resources in other ways: using space in the
archives and mirrors around the world, building in more than 15
architectures for every version (sometimes in not very powerful or
quite busy machines), etc.

On top of that, they put pressure on libraries/packages that the
software depends upon, since Debian people in general don't like to
gratuitously break packages that have been accepted as part of the
distribution.

For example, I am the maintainer of OGRE in Debian and I am thinking
of removing 1.7 for the next stable and keep 1.8 only.  If there's
software depending on that OGRE version and breaking with newer ones
(as it's the case with OpenDungeons with OGRE 1.7->1.8, I think), it
makes much more difficult for me to keep only one or two versions of
OGRE in the archive without breaking all of the packages not updated
upstream.

So for all of these reasons, I will close the bug report for the time
being.  I wish you success with the project and that it can be
packaged in the future.

Regards.

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