Bug#829599: game-data-packager: please consider backporting to jessie

[Phil Morrell]

Package: game-data-packager
Version: 45~bpo8~emorrp1+1
Severity: wishlist

Hello maintainers,

Please consider releasing the latest game-data-packager to jessie. Since
stable, it's been re-organised to a yaml data-driven approach and (as a
result?) supports a greatly expanded list of games. Many of these newer games
are already packaged in jessie e.g. freespace2/chocolate-doom and some are
newly packaged in stretch e.g. corsix-th.

It has built and installed cleanly without modification for the last few
versions and I'm happy to help with any bug reports from stable. I have been
managing this locally, but after this discussion
(https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH/issues/1037), game-data-packager makes it
much easier to get started with the open-source engines.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages game-data-packager depends on:
ii  fakeroot        1.20.2-1
ii  python3         3.4.2-2
ii  python3-debian  0.1.27
ii  python3-yaml    3.11-2
pn  python3:any     <none>

game-data-packager recommends no packages.

Versions of packages game-data-packager suggests:
pn  arj                                <none>
ii  binutils                           2.25-5
ii  cabextract                         1.4-5
pn  cdparanoia                         <none>
pn  dynamite                           <none>
ii  gcc                                4:4.9.2-2
ii  gdebi                              0.9.5.5+nmu1
ii  gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0               2.31.1-2+deb8u5
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                     3.14.5-1+deb8u1
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                   1.36.8-3
ii  innoextract                        1.4-1+b1
pn  lgc-pg                             <none>
pn  lgogdownloader                     <none>
pn  lhasa | jlha-utils | lzh-archiver  <none>
ii  make                               4.0-8.1
ii  p7zip-full                         9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.1+deb8u2
ii  python3-gi                         3.14.0-1
pn  steam                              <none>
pn  steamcmd                           <none>
pn  unace-nonfree                      <none>
ii  unar                               1.8.1-3+b1
ii  unrar                              1:5.2.7-0.1
pn  unshield                           <none>
ii  unzip                              6.0-16+deb8u2
pn  vorbis-tools                       <none>
pn  xdelta                             <none>

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