Any changes before next upload?

[Jordi Mallach]

Hey,

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 11:01:31AM +0200, Cesare Falco wrote:
> > 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.

Hm, ok.

> 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.

Isn't what we have in git enough? It ought to be, but if anything else is
needed (I can't see why), just say/push.

> 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.).

I don't have an absolutely strong opinion on this, but my feeling is that
neither /usr/games or /usr/local/games is the correct place for this data.

If I had to go ahead and support something like /usr/local/games, I would
add it, instead of replace it, to the already existing paths, but I do
think /usr/share/games needs to be present, as it is possible currently to
package some non-free-but-redistributable rom in a .deb, which would
install in /usr/share/games.

Jordi
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