New Branch for building Mame and Mess >= 0.144

Emmanuel Kasper emmanuel at libera.cc
Mon Nov 28 17:26:35 UTC 2011


Le 27/11/2011 16:11, Jordi Mallach a écrit :
> Hey Manu,

Hello jordi ! Thanks for your feedback, I was starting to feel alone here :)


> 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.

I merged my changes to master, but upstream is not happy about such a
way to build Mame :P
http://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=73506
I updated in http://wiki.debian.org/MameDevel
how to build the package

>> 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?
> 
IMHO it should go with g-v-a as this file is only useful with a front
end, but I would not fight against including it with Mess.

BTW have you read my email about advocating me as a Debian Maintainer ?

Manu



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