Bug#726355: assaultcube: new upstream version of AssaultCube

[Jackson Doak]

It's one of the bigger shooters for linux, so it would be a shame to
orphan it. I can't maintain it as my internet is too bad to download
it unfortuanately.

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Martin Werner <ienorand at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:23:38PM +0200, Jérémy wrote:
>> Package: assaultcube
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Tags: upstream
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>>    * What led up to the situation?
>> New version 1.2 has been released the 9 october 2013
>>
>> Can you upgrade the package, please ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>>   APT prefers testing
>>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>>
>> Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
>> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>>
>
> I've mentioned this before, but I'll do so again:
>
> I've most "recently" been the one messing with AssaultCube in Debian
> (updating it from upstream 1.0.4 to the current Debian version 1.1.0.4,
> and some work beyond that). But I have since stopped actively poking at
> it. For more info see my mail at
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2012/06/msg00006.html and
> a related AC license discussion in
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2012/10/msg00075.html + thread.
>
> My impression is also that Gonéri (the reviewer/sponsor of my AC
> changes) is also not actively maintaining the assaultcube package.
>
> So, neither I, not do I suspect Gonéri (?) will be updating the
> assaultcube package to the new upstream 1.2 anytime soon.
>
> However, as mentioned in previous discussions, if anyone would be
> interested in picking it up, I'd be very happy to help out with some of
> the work. But I do not intend to drive it.
>
> By the way, would it be relevant to orphan the assaultcube package
> currently? What do you think Gonéri, and devel-games in general?
>
> --
> Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner at gmail.com>
>
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