RFP: yamagi-xatrix & yamagi-rogue

[Simon McVittie]

On 29/09/15 18:47, PICCORO McKAY Lenz wrote:
>> I see there's here a bit of code that call "make" and expect to find a resulting "game.so"
>> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-games/game-data-packager.git/tree/game_data_packager/games/quake2.py
> 
> umm i have only the game-data-packager 36 not lasted i'm using squeeze
> as main system and wheeze only for few things..

If you are not using a version that has current development, then
non-critical bugs will not be fixed in the version you are running. You
can have software that doesn't change, or you can have new things, but
you can't have both.

If the yquake2 game code was packaged in Debian, it would be packaged
for stretch (what will become Debian 9), not jessie (Debian 8), and
certainly not wheezy or squeeze (Debian 7 or 6).

>> Only strange thing is that I get a:
>> | quake2-groundzero-data_43_all.deb
>> instead of a:
>> | quake2-groundzero-data_43_amd64.deb

That's most likely a bug in game-data-packager. The YAML should have a
tag for "this is architecture-dependent" which would be set on those two
packages.

> umm then for thos two RFP rqeuest,
> could one can generate a package and test if works

>From what I remember of their licenses, it would probably not be legal
to include them in Debian, even in non-free.

If you are developing a Debian derivative, and you want to ignore the
relevant copyright license and take the risk that you will be sued by a
copyright holder, that's your choice. However, that is not something
that Debian will do.

> and there's no game-data-packager for the zaero mod, and no linux
> support (ion the official original disc the so file for linux crash
> when loading)

What is "the zaero mod"? Where could an interested developer download or
buy it?

We are certainly not going to upload something we can't test.

> as i see in game-data-packager maybe not necesary to see, but yes if
> take in consideration package it due have many bugfixeds over original
> id soft code and yamagi ports are fully 64bit clean

game-data-packager uses Yamagi's versions of the xatrix and rogue code,
not the original id Software releases. The number of bugs fixed is
exactly the same as if the same code was uploaded to Debian as packages.

    S