Comments regarding cytadela_1.0.0-1_multi.changes

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 06:53:42PM +0200, Torsten Werner wrote:
> Hi Sylvain,
> 
> Sylvain Beucler schrieb:
> > 'far' contain textures and fonts (somewhat similar to a .zip file).
> > http://cytadela.sourceforge.net/download.php
> > 'fareditor' is not packaged in Debian, but is GPL'd.  I used it once
> > to modify the color of a game texture.
> > As far as I know that's the preferred format for modification.
> > 
> > cmf and 3dg are named after the game maps, so I can only guess that
> > they represent them, which src/cmf/ appears to confirm.  I don't know
> > about tools to modify them.  Since upstream cares about compatibility
> > with the original implementation, I suppose it works on the original,
> > game-specific data as-is.  Consequently I would say this is the
> > preferred form of modification, though there's currently no published
> > tool to modify them.
> 
> thanks for your answer. I'm afraid that the data belongs into contrib as
> long as we don't have the tools in main.

This makes sense.

Do you intend to apply this to other packages in main that have
similar limitations, such as beneath-a-steel-sky?

-- 
Sylvain