Bug#748321: ITP: raceintospace -- free software version of the Liftoff! board game
On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 09:49:27 +0200 Dariusz Dwornikowski <dariusz.dwornikowski@cs.put.poznan.pl> wrote:
> > Dariusz Dwornikowski <dariusz.dwornikowski@cs.put.poznan.pl> writes:
> >
> > > Since the package depends on physfs 2.1, which has not been release
> > > yet, we need to wait for the upstream of physfs to release 2.1 and for
> > > the package to be in Debian. For now, raceintospace is ready in
> > > pkg-games git and can go to Debian when physfs is ready.
> >
> > Thanks for your efforts in packaging raceintospace. I've noticed that
> > Hedgewars used to have a similar problem, which they've solved by adding
> > a compatibility layer for PhysFS 2.0. Using this as a starting point, I
> > saw that only one more function had to be provided, which I backported
> > from the 2.1 branch with some minor modifications. With the attached
> > patch, raceintospace compiles and runs with the PhysFS library from
> > sid. The compatibility layer checks for the version number of PhysFS, so
> > once 2.1 is packaged, the code should automatically stop being included.
>
> Thanks for that Hendrik, I will test it and preppare a release if it
> is ok.
>
>
> >
> > The only slight drawback is that Hedgewars is GPL-2 only, so it will no
> > longer be possible to ship raceintospace binaries as GPL-2+. But since
> > this is only a temporary situation, I think this can be justified.
>
> Yeah I think so. On the other hand I can see that physfs is not very
> actively developed so we could wait a little bit.
It's been 9 months, and physfs 2.1 still doesn't seem to be available
in either sid or experimental. This patch seems quite reasonable; is
someone still willing to upload raceintospace with that patch?
- Josh Triplett
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