Debian package for Cube?

[Eddy Petrişor]

On 4/8/06, Wouter van Oortmerssen <wvo at gmx.net> wrote:
> > That what i do. I create these packages:
> >
> > From the free source
> > cube-client
> > cube-server
> >
> > From the nonfree data files
> > cube-client-nonfree
> > cube-data
>
> That's what I said before, don't split up the packages. Put it as a single package
> all in non-free, not built from source, using the binaries supplied by me. As
> you can see in the readme which you didn't read, the public source code has a
> different protocol than the binaries, for cheat protection reasons. If you allow
> Cube to be built from source, you cause me to have to answer 100s of "why
> can't I connect to servers" emails. If the above is not to your liking, then please
> don't include Cube in debian at all.

Surely, providing a binary with a changed network protocol as a
security measure is merely a joke. I think that you agree that
security through obscurity is no real security.

If you really are afraid that much that people will cheat, surely
there could be other way of detecting such conduct. Usualy people
using these games tend to realise who's cheating and isolate the
offender.


That said, please understand that what you are asking is quite
impractical and not doing your project any good.

I, for one, welcome our i386-only overlords! May I can dump your
binaries in the trash bin? (I use a powerpc computer).

Please understand that what you are asking does not make sense.

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Regards,
EddyP
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