New Branch for building Mame and Mess >= 0.144

[Jordi Mallach]

Hey Manu,

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 03:23:52PM +0100, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
> After a lot of thinking out, I branched out our packaging code in a
> branch mess-only, where everything is built from the mess zip
> distribution. Although not officially supported by upstream, building
> mame from within the mess distribution works very well and allows to
> throw out a bunch of duplicated code in debian/rules.

I saw your changes in git a few days ago. It's a lot simpler, and
regardless of what the forum says, it seems safe to do right now.

I don't think the tree in master is of any use right now, so I'd vote for
you to merge the mess-only branch into master so we continue from there.

> The only downside I see to this approach is that we have a new source
> package "mess" instead of "mame" which mean more delays with the FTP
> infranstructure.

Not a big delay, given it's just a rename. I'll ping an ftp-master to tell
him what the new source package is all about, really.

> If you want to check out the code and build mame and mess 0.144
> packages, just follow the instructions at http://wiki.debian.org/MessDevel.
> 
> Right now the pacakges are created properly with cowbuilder, I will then
> add the copyrights files for 0.144 and then we can think of an upload.

Way to go!

The NPlayers maintainer sent me an update for 0.144. What do we want to do
with these files, or this one in particular, which has a free licence?

I would include it as a Debian patch, to simplify things. The rest can be
obtained using manu's script.

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