Bug#766185: support of different Freeciv clients

[Markus Koschany]

retitle 766185 support of different Freeciv clients
thanks


Here is the current plan for Freeciv 2.5:

1. The virtual package "freeciv" should be dropped and be replaced with
   a metapackage. Actually freeciv is not even part of this
   authoritative list of virtual packages and I think using a
   metapackage is much simpler and has several advantages for users.

https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt

2. The metapackage freeciv should always depend on the recommended and
   most sophisticated Freeciv client which is currently
   freeciv-client-gtk2 thus »apt install freeciv« will avoid any
   confusion among users and will always ensure the best gaming
   experience.

3. All other clients are optional and can be installed with separate
   binary packages.

   freeciv-client-gtk (recommended, contains the GTK2 client)
   freeciv-client-gtk3 (NEW, contains the GTK3 client)
   freeciv-client-sdl (no changes)
   freeciv-client-xaw3d (big question mark, I'm not sure if it is worth
   to support xaw anymore since it lacks many features. It seems there
   are still some users who use this client. So one may argue that we
   should keep it as long as it is maintainable.

   freeciv-client-qt (NEW: contains the Qt client)

Obviously Freeciv has to go through NEW for this change and it should be
implemented for Freeciv 2.5.

Markus


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