Bug#977374: ITP: vdf -- package for working with Valve's text and binary KeyValue format

[Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 14:23:11 +0000, Stephan Lachnit wrote:
>   Description     : package for working with Valve's text and binary KeyValue
> format
> 
> Required for Protontricks. Will go into contrib. Will maintain in the Games
> team.

Did you get anywhere with this? I think the steam package is likely to
benefit from having this in the archive: the upstream steam-launcher
package, as repackaged in Debian as steam, already makes use of this code
for some maintenance tools, although the shipped package doesn't use it
at runtime.

I already maintain some Python libraries, and this one looks straightforward
to package. May I co-maintain? I actually already have nearly-working
packaging, although if you already have packaging I'm happy to take a look
at that instead.

I don't think this needs to be in contrib, I think it would be fine
in main: the VDF format is associated with non-free Valve products,
but there's nothing inherently non-free about it. It's a file format
that anyone could use, like JSON.

    smcv