Bug#690905: freedoom: Prboom Plus should be used instead of Prboom
Am 16.11.2012 11:32, schrieb Jon Dowland:
Long term I think I probably agree with you. We should probably not
have both in jessie. But, I'd like to give prboom+ a proper evaluation
before I'd consider dropping prboom - so I think they should coexist
prior to the next release, so prboom+ gets plenty of exposure in
Debian.
Maybe we should contact prboom upstream and ask if they are going to
maintain prboom any further. Are you in contact with them?
I've just put some initial packaging work at
git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-games/prboom+.git
It still says prboom in some places and I think prboom+ uses
sdl-image, so this would be missing as a build depends. But thanks for
starting it, anyway!
I had hoped we could use the upstream VCS rather than import tarballs, but
sadly they have not tagged/branched their most recent releases. At least this
way, I've only imported tarballs that have been filtered via fix_upstream.sh
(forked from prboom's version) so the VCS content is DFSG-clean too.
I am fine with this!
I've opted for prboom+ as the binary/source package name, rather than
"prboom-plus". Upstream use different ones in different circumstances,
but as long as + is valid in debian package names I don't see why we
shouldn't use it. The upstream binary name is prboom-plus, so I've put
in a symlink for prboom+ since I don't like it when binary package names
don't correspond to the supplied binary name (where possible). I haven't
yet done the symlink for the manpage too.
Hm, I think using a '+' in file names somehow feels "unclean", but I
have no strong objections. We should sure keep symlinks for both
notations.
Plenty more work to do…
Sure, expect me so join in as an Uploader anytime soon. ;)
- Fabian
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