Last steps to Mame 0.148

[Emmanuel Kasper]

Le 17/01/2013 09:54, Cesare Falco a écrit :
> Hello Folks!
> 
> in the last few days I've been working on 0.148 and I think I'm nearly done.
> 

Great !

> There's a couple of things I'd like to have some feedback on before
> pushing the new debian/0.148 branch:
> 
> * I removed examples for Mame and Mess .ini files (agreed on the list
> not long ago).

why not !

> * Newer gcc/g++/patch releases don't require stripping trailing CR and
> scanning the merged source tree was increasingly prone to potential
> errors as new file type (i.e. extensions) are introduced upstream. I
> updated the get-orig-source target in debian/rules accordingly.

wonderful ! I was always uneasy which this under-the-hood magic.


> * I'd like to push for a standalone mame-extra package. Nplayers is
> still on hold at 0.147 and it's the major issue to a proper 0.148
> release at present. I'd also like to include more stuff (mameinfo.dat
> in the first place), and things would only get worse. I'm aware this
> will pose some problems, so I understand we can't deal with before
> 0.149.

this is probably the way to go but has implications:

first we should create a new git repo on alioth (easy) for the new
source package

then we should decide if we want to hard depends mame version 0.xxx with
mame-extra version 0.xxx.
My two cents here would say *no* since it prevents us to have the latest
and greatest mame availaible in sid as soon as possible.
So mame should only suggests mame-extra, with no version dependancy (as
it is now)

ideas ?

> Man pages have been accepted/updated upstream in 0.147u4 so I removed
> them as well. A small patch dealing with a new option introduced in
> 0.148 remains (already forwarded upstream).
OK don't forget to put a descriptive header in the patch.

Don't forget to git rebase to get the last changes Jordi and me
commited, after that feel free to push your work !
Looking forwad to 0.148.

Manu