Bug#905748: debian-games: Please bring back games-finest-light

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Wed Aug 8 22:02:29 BST 2018


Source: debian-games
Severity: wishlist
Version: 2.4

The debian/changelog entry for 2.4 says:

   * Remove finest-light binary package. Nowadays modern computers should be
     capable of running all free software games in Debian without restrictions.

The latter is neither true nor should it be a reason to remove this IMHO
very useful metapackage:

   * There are definitely many modern computers without graphics
     hardware acceleration, espcially in the single board computer
     segment (ARM, MIPS, etc., which Debian also targets).

   * On all devices which boot up on SD or MicroSD cards, disk space is
     scarce and hence a collection of lightweight games makes also sense
     for more powerful computers which don't have a hard disk or real SSD.

   * Debian does not only run on "modern" computers.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled



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