Fwd: Any changes before next upload?

[Cesare Falco]

Sorry, I forgot to cc the list as usual... ;-)

Cesare.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Cesare Falco <cesare.falco at gmail.com>
Date: 2011/8/4
Subject: Re: Any changes before next upload?
To: Jordi Mallach <jordi at debian.org>


> So 11.10 is sticking with 0.141? Any details of what you have in mind?
no, 0.143 has just been uploaded, the debian/ directory coming from my
"old" ubuntu-specific tree.

What I *need* is the handling of dependencies on sdlmame/xmame,
in a way that will make both Debian' and Ubuntu's apt happy. Some
better spacing/formatting in debian/control should be advisable too.

What I would like to discuss with the rest of the team are mainly
the configuration options/files and the directories layout, the bigger issue
being I'd like to use /usr/local/games/ instead of /usr/share/games/
as base path.

When I started packaging (sdl)Mame back in 2007, I understood /usr/
is intended for the package system, anything installed but by apt
should go to /usr/local/ instead (remember Roms are still copyrighted and
we can't package even the freely available ones, which must be downloaded
from the Mame site).

I haven't been looking at the standards since then, and things could well
have changed, but my strong feeling is that we should stick with /usr/local/
in the configuration files both for roms and anything that is not packaged at
present (samples, cheat files etc.).

Cesare.