Getting ready for a mame 0.145 upload

[Cesare Falco]

Hello Manu,

> I have updated the copyright file to 0.145 and corrected the name of the
> generated tarball for nplayers.
Very good, I forgot to fix it. Sorry. :(

I would also recommend to remove the "all" target in
override_dh_auto_build as we don't build mame-tools any more;
$(MAKE) -j$(NJOBS) $(DEB_MAME_OPTS)
will suffice :)

> The patches that we have in debian/patches are outdated compared to what
> Cesare submitted upstream but I don't see it as a big problem, as they
> will be dropped anyway by the next release.
Exactly. The new versions would not apply to 0.145 BTW... :)

> I guess we don't need the sdlmame.preinst anymore, do we still need the
I did merge this from Ubuntu on purpose. On second thought, it has little sense.
Hardy (Ubuntu 8.04) is no longer supported for desktops (who would install
mame on a server?!), and no direct upgrade from it would be possible, so we
can consider transition complete. In short: please remove it. ;)

> mame.preinst ?
>
> I don't feel very confortable with the kind of code it has like
>
>    upgrade)
>        # Sweep out wrong directories /usr/share/*/mame-base/
>        if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt "0.138u1"; then
>            rm -rf /usr/share/games/mame-base/
>            rm -rf /usr/share/doc/mame-base/
see above. No dist-upgrade could ever happen in Ubuntu from version
older than -1, so feel free to remove this part of the script.
Sorry for messing things up, I should have thought more about it. :(

Cheers,
Cesare.