Ubuntu vs. Debian packages

[Cesare Falco]

Hey all,

I've recently committed what's needed to merge the Ubuntu package for 
Mame with the Debian one. There's just a couple of minor differences I'd 
like to sort out:

1. rompath: is there any good reason to keep /usr/share/games/mame/roms 
as a valid rompath entry? Nobody but the apt system should write into 
system directories, and we don't expect roms to be packaged. Local 
admins should put them in /usr/local/share/games/mame/roms instead, so I 
think keeping the former entry is pointless.

2. video option: Mame performs *bad* with -video soft, even with older 
games. I guess there are no Mame user who don't own a decent, 
accelerated graphic card. That's why I put -video opengl as the default 
in Ubuntu, and never received complaints about that. I think lots of 
user (maybe all?) would switch the default just after installation, so 
why don't save them the effort? :)

We should also consider forwarding upstream the patches we wrote to 
allow linking the jpeg and flac system library. They are in an 
acceptable form now IMHO.

Cheers,
Cesare.