Bug#846147: mednafen: Consider adding the mednaffe package as recommended

Alex Henry tukkek at gmail.com
Mon Nov 28 17:17:08 UTC 2016


Package: mednafen
Version: 0.9.39.2+dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist

Hello! mednafen is the best emulator on Debian in my opinion
(not to say best emulator ever) but it is a bit on the technical
side to work with, especially for the less technical users out
there who just want to play games.

In this regard I just came accross the mednaffe pacakage. I haven't
tested it extensively but it seems to be a superb front-end for
mednafen and I'm sure I'll be using it from now on - and I believe
it would help others have a better gaming experience with mednafen
as well.

If you would consider adding it as a "recommended" package it will
make sure that some package managers will install it together with
mednafen. The mednaffe comes with a start-menu shortcut so users
that install mednafen will be able to just go to their game section
and start mednafen via mednaffe and not even notice they're two
different programs.

I am a technical user and I understand that mednafen is to be launched
from the command line and I even set up my own shortcuts and file
associations in my file manager/explorer to automatically launch games.
Most gamers though don't know how to do that, not to mention find
and configure the emulator. mednaffe makes launching and configuring
your games as simple as possible considering the complexety of the
emulator itself. Please kindly consider adding it as a recommended
companion program (which advanced users are then free not to install).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mednafen depends on:
ii  libasound2                        1.1.2-1
ii  libc6                             2.24-5
ii  libgcc1                           1:6.2.0-13
ii  libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.116]  1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg-3
ii  libmpcdec6                        2:0.1~r495-1
ii  libsdl1.2debian                   1.2.15+dfsg1-4
ii  libsndfile1                       1.0.27-1
ii  libstdc++6                        6.2.0-13
ii  libtrio2                          1.16+dfsg1-3
ii  libvorbisidec1                    1.0.2+svn18153-0.2
ii  zlib1g                            1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b3

mednafen recommends no packages.

mednafen suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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