Bug#731372: RFA: spring -- modern full-3D RTS game engine

[Markus Koschany]

retitle 719618 RFA: spring -- modern full-3D RTS game engine
noowner 719618
tags 731372 patch
thanks


Hello Jan and Martin,

I have overhauled the Debian spring package and committed everything to
the team's git repository. The new package closes almost every bug
except the ones which require exceptional efforts by upstream, namely
making spring work on other architectures than amd64 or i386.

I'm sure that I improved the package but I don't intend to become one of
the uploaders at the moment. There are far too many embedded third party
software libraries and I can't see that upstream will try to change that
in the near future. I'm also a little disappointed that there is no kind
of security mailing list and only little effort to work with upstream
developers of embedded libs like assimp to incorporate spring's changes. [1]

However I would really appreciate it if someone reviewed the current
packaging work and helped with fixing the current RC bug.

As far as I can see the springlobby package could also benefit from a
new upstream release and rapid-spring is no longer supported (see the
info at the bottom of the page) [2] I don't think it's worth to support
this package for Jessie.

In any case

Happy Christmas!



[1] http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=31300
[2] http://springrts.com/wiki/GamesDownloads

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