Bug#567911: upgrading hex-a-hop in Debian

[Ari Mustonen]

Hi,

I'm aware of the issues with the non-free data files. I'll try to find
free replacements for the next release, though it might take some time
since I'm not a sound engineer. As sound support is the only
significant improvement over the old version, Debian probably won't
benefit much from upgrading until the audio content can be included.

I'm creating a Trac hosted app for the project so that bug reports can
be alternatively submitted using it in the future. It's still being
configured but it should be working soon enough. It can be found at
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/hexahop/

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We've had a request[1] to upgrade hex-a-hop in Debian to your version
> but it was noticed[2] that it unfortunately contains some non-free
> parts. It would be great if you could split the non-free parts out into
> a separate tarball so the main source tarball can be included in Debian.
> All the audio with nonfree in the file name looks non-free to me.
>
> Also, data/font.ttf doesn't need to be shipped in the hex-a-hop source
> code since we have it available in the ttf-liberation package.
>
> Also, it would be good if the data files in the source package were
> shipped in a standard format like bmp, png or similar instead of dat.
> The build process could then convert them to dat. Or the game could be
> adapted to load data from standard formats using libpng or similar.
>
> Also, could you enable the bug tracker on the sf.net project so that we
> can send you bug reports from users? In case you are interested in
> fixing some bugs or applying some patches, there are some filed and
> applied in Debian[3], Ubuntu[4], NetBSD[5] and FreeBSD[6].
>
>     1. http://bugs.debian.org/567911
>     2. http://bugs.debian.org/567911#15
>     3. http://bugs.debian.org/hex-a-hop
>     4. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hex-a-hop
>     5. http://cvsweb.se.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/games/hex-a-hop/patches/
>     6. http://cvsweb.se.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/games/hex-a-hop/patches/patch-aa?rev=1.1.1.1
>     7. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/games/hex-a-hop/files/
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
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