ScummVM in Debian

[Max Horn]

Hello there,

my name is Max Horn, I am one of the project leads for ScummVM. I am contacting you because you seem to be the current maintainer(s) of the Debian scummvm package. I have some questions and remarks on that:

* We currently have David Weinehall listed as our official Debian contact point; but as I recently discovered, this is not quite current anymore, and apparently wasn't so for some years. As I understand it, now the group of developers joined under <pkg-games-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org> is maintaining the package. Correct? I would like to update our credits file to correctly reflect this (by either updating or remove the entry for "Debian package"). 

* We recently were made aware that you had enabled the SCI engine in your package when ScummVM 1.1.0 was released. It's good that you re-disabled it in the 1.1.1 package (after one of our team members noticed this and requested the change). This unilateral change was quite unfortunate from our point of view, as we very deliberately disabled the SCI engine for this release. The incident  easily could have been prevented if communication with us (i.e. upstream) had taken place. We are a very cooperative upstream, trust me on that, and happily and effectively work together with packagers from many other distributions and platforms; we hope that it is also in your interest to work with upstream sources, not against them :-). So, let me encourage you and invite you to forward bug reports (if they are not Debian specific), discuss troubles ScummVM causes you, and changes you would like to see on our side.

* I noticed on <http://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/scummvm> that you still have builddepends on texlive and ghostscript. We used to ship some TeX code for documentation, but that was removed some years ago. Hence you may wish to remove that builddepends for your own convenience.


Thank your for packaging ScummVM and for listening,
Max Horn
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Max Horn
ScummVM Project Lead
http://www.scummvm.org/