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Bug#706049: RFS: nsnake/1.5-1 [ITP] -- classic snake game with textual interface



Ok, Alexandre, I have sponsored your package.
Please, consider also an adopting of snake4 package to get some more
packaging experience and to help Debian.

Best regards,

Anton

On 04/24/2013 03:32 PM, Alexandre Dantas wrote:
> Hi Anton, thanks for replying!
> 
> This package has textual interface. So, unlike the snake-package already on
> Archive, it requires no X libraries or a graphical session. It can simply be
> played directly through the ttys or from a ssh session, being a nice
> distraction
> during a system crash/restore.
> 
> From the user's point of view, it encourages dealing with the terminal and
> feeling confortable with textual interfaces. By being lightweight, it
> imposes no
> barriers on old/less capable computers.
> 
> From the developer's point of view, it's a simple, well-commented program
> in C
> with few dependences. The only required libraries are standard
> out-of-the-box
> packages. It was developed with beginner programmers in mind, being a nice
> start-up for C game developers.
> 
> Also, since the mantainer and upstream are the same person, it eases
> mantainability/updates and zeroes the chance of it ever becoming orphan.
> 
> Finally, it would be a nice addition to the other text-based packages
> already on
> the Archive [0].
> 
> [0]:
> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ncurses+game&searchon=all&suite=stable&section=all
> 
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:55 AM, Anton Gladky <gladk@debian.org> wrote:
> 

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