fight win prevail project stopped

[Bruno Kleinert]

This one time, at band camp, Eddy Petrisor wrote:
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> Linas Žvirblis wrote:
> > Bruno Kleinert wrote:
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> >> this evening i read in the fwp project's news, that the project stopped
> >> development two days ago.
> >>
> >> i think we can also stop packaging the game,
> >> because upstream couldn't find a replacement team, that could have
> >> continued further development of the project.
> > 
> > There are packages in Debian that have been abandoned by upstream for
> > way longer than two days. Maybe more people would get interested if it
> > would receive more publicity?
> > 
> > We could add something like "This project needs a new upstream
> > developer. Are YOU interested?" and maybe somebody actually will get
> > interested.
> 
> I agree, this could be a better approach.
> Maybe we could place later a critical bug to not allow it in the next release, if upstream is not revived.
> 
> - --
> Regards,
> EddyP
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as i was talking to a fellow student today, it came out by accident
that he seems to know a bit of fwp's internals. he advised me to be
very, very careful about packaging fwp, because there should be modified
game data from commercial games it!

cheers - fuddl

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