[gmail] Re: New SVN game: Quake III

[Marc Leeman]

> Come on, 3 mb is not really that large nowadays.

This aside, it would IMHO complicate matters (maintenance) considering
the active upstream.

> > The package name is the SVN snapshot, so one could consider that as a
> > 'release' snapshot 530 will not change, ...
> 
> Please provide the orig.tar.gz you are using then.

In my original announcement mail I wrote:

> I uploaded Quake III to the games SVN; the tarball of the upstream
> sources (svn530 snapshot) is in incoming of pkg-games.
> 
> Is that the correct location and do I have access to move it around to
> some other place?

Since I did not get a reply on this, nor did anyone mention moving it, I
would assume it is still there.

> (I still prefer to not use mergeWithUpstream mode for this package)

In my professional life, I am used to working with large (free software)
upstream projects (u-boot, linux kernel, busybox, uclibc, dropbear,
...) where we need to make some board specific changes to; and from
that experience, I would have to say that putting all code in SVN is a
bad idea.

-- 
  greetz, marc
There you are. We've been looking all over for you, Rygel. You're
making the DRD's nervous.
	Zhaan - PK Tech Girl
scorpius.homelinux.org 2.6.15 #1 PREEMPT Thu Jan 5 22:01:16 CET 2006 GNU/Linux
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