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[Jordi Mallach]

Ciao Cesare and rest of the team!

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 06:54:41PM +0200, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
> we were discussing this very topic this week and came to the same
> conclusion ( multi tarball via debsrc 3.0) no work has started yet AFAIK
> though

I have implemented it in my own tree, but had postponed a push until I had
a green light to upload 0.142 (which I now have, thank you!).

Basically, get-orig-source now fetches the two zips, and converts to a
mame.orig.tar.bz2 and a mame.orig-mess.tar.bz2, being careful to remove
the conflicting files that we mentioned before (the differences are just
line ending).

With this, we would need to again do massive work on debian/copyright
before being ready to reintroduce the mess binary.

> > The package for mess has not been published yet:
> > * it lacks docs and detailed copyright infos
> > * mess-tools shares chdman with mame-tools, I'm stuck between
> >    *   making mess-tools depend on mame-tool

Do the tools differ? If so, are they compatible between them? If they are
the same tool, or compatible, I guess the easiest is to handle them via
update-alternatives, with a higher priority for the MAME version.

> >    *   turning both to meta packages and breaking them in a
> >        set of packages (mame-chdman, mame-ldplayer,
> >        mess-whatever...) which the meta packages will then
> >        depend on (recommended IMHO)

Ugh, this would be way too many packages.

> > Phew! That's all for now! Any observation is welcome. :)

Great work! I'm looking forward for you to join the team!

Jordi
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