rott and grub-invaders packages under team maintainance

[Hans de Goede]

Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Hello Hans,
> 
> Hans de Goede schrieb:
>> Talking about rott, when packaging rott for Fedora I've done many 
>> bugfixes and spend a lot if time porting over improvements from the 
>> winrott windows port to the unix port. Including adding support for 
>> (software) rendering at higher resolutions then 320x240, which really 
>> is a must for use with modern LCD's.
>>
>> I think it would be great if these improvements could be added to 
>> Debian's package too, the patches live here:
>> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/rott/
> 
> Thank you very much! Of course I'd like to have as much as possible of 
> these patches in Debian, too.
> 
> However, there has allready been a code audit for the 1.0-5 release of 
> the rott package in Debian and I guess that we allready ship most of the 
> fixes in our patchset that are also in your repository. We should 
> compare where our patches overlap. In this regard, it would be nice if 
> you could take a short look at our patches and compare them with your work.
> 

Done,

Fedora has all the same fixes (although sometimes done slightly differently), 
except for the following patches:
04-alt-gr.dpatch
05-big-endian-fix.dpatch
18-fix-drawichar.dpatch
19-playerarrow.dpatch
20-printf-no-long.dpatch
21-no-soundsetup.dpatch

I've applied all these on top of the large load of other patches Fedora 
carried, resolved any conflicts and merged them all into a 
rott-1.0-debian.patch, which now is in fedora CVS too:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/rott/

So if you remove all your patches and replace them by the Fedora ones you get a 
"highres" renderer and quite a few additional bugfixes. I can understand if you 
will be reluctant todo this, but trust me I've gone to each and every Debian 
patch, and those not in the -debian.patch are all fixed (in 9/10 in the exact 
same way) in the Fedora patches.

Doing it the other way around (Fedora patches on top of Debian ones) did not 
seem a good idea as the Fedora patches (esp the winrott ones) measure around 
1Mb in size.

Regards,

Hans