Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : vor Version : 0.5.6 Upstream Author : Jason Woofenden <jason@jasonwoof.com> * URL : http://sametwice.com/vor * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : A quick action game of dodging rocks in space VoR is a simple, fast-paced action game that will challenge your reflexes. It has excellent gameplay, great physics, good graphics, and a retro/synthoid thumpy beat to help put you in the mood for old-school 2D gaming. VoR has been in Debian before, and was removed because because the package maintainer didn't respond do bug reports for a couple years. VoR should be very easy to get into debian, because a package has been created for it before, which would be used pretty much as-is. A couple changes should be made though: 1. It should be bumped up to vor-0.5.6, because 0.5.5 FTBFS because of a missing -lm compiler flag. 2. It should be moved from contrib to main. The only reason it was in main is because the tarball contains .pov files, and povray used to be in non-free. But now povray is in main, so VoR can be also. 3. The patch is no longer important, but you could leave it in there if you wish. The patch is there because older versions of VoR would fail to run if the current working directory contained a directory named "data" which was not VoR's graphics directory. VoR is no longer so easily fooled (it now checks for ``./data/b_variations.png``) VoR should be easy to maintain, because it builds in a very standard way (autoconf) and because releases are infrequent. Also, I (the primary upstream maintainer) respond in a timely manner to emails. Here's a link to the old VoR package: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/vor I'm attaching the vor_0.5.5-2.debian.tar.gz linked from there, because I assume it'll be removed from pool/ at some point. Thank you! -- Jason
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