Bug#977374: ITP: vdf -- package for working with Valve's text and binary KeyValue format
> 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.
Oh cool, I didn't know there are use cases outside of protontricks besides
some funny scraping tools.
It lost a bit track of this due to Proton 5.13 not working with protontricks
(at least when I checked last time), so I haven't done anything yet.
> 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.
Cool, yeah I don't mind. I wanted to maintain it the Games team, I suggest we
can just add us both as uploaders.
I also have packaged Python libraries before, it shouldn't have any surpises.
If you already have stuff, send me the link to the salsa repo once uploaded,
I can also do a bit of the chore if you want.
> 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.
Yeah this was before the longer discussion on debian-devel-games.
I agree, main should be fine.
Regards,
Stephan
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