Any changes before next upload?

[Cesare Falco]

Hello Jordi,

>> 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.
yes, there might be actually more than needed IMHO ;-)

I mean the sdlmame/sdlmame-tools transitional packages,
we agreed some time ago that they don't make sense for Debian.
I'd like to see if I can arrange things to remove them.

>> 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.
so, where do you think we should put them?
I'm open to suggestions, that's why I wanted to discuss this in more
details. :-)

> 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.
no, at present packaging them is explicity disallowed, please see:
http://mamedev.org/roms/
I suspect even a .deb downloading them at configuration time (similar
to the flash plugin) could be questionable.

Things may obviously change in the future, and mame.ini can be synced
accordingly at the right time, adding /usr/share/games/ to the searching paths.

Cheers,
Cesare.