Need to upgrade performous, care if I do?

[Markus Koschany]

Hi,

Am 13.07.19 um 18:34 schrieb Thorsten Glaser:
> Hi,
> 
> performous has a catastrophic failure for me (it crashes instead
> of starting), and upstream proposed a fix which I am to test. The
> problem with that is that it does not at all apply, which means
> I’ll have to locally update performous first.
> 
> Mind if I do and then upload the result?
> 
> I already asked apo via IRC privmsg, but it turns out this is all
> more complicated, so I’ll throw it into the larger audience first.

I have no objections whatsoever. Every contribution that improves a
package will always be greatly appreciated by me.


> The debian/README.source shocked me a bit, and it turns out that
> upstream split performous-tools off into a separate repository,
> buildable stand-alone from the rest.

It was a bit unfortunate how I had to create the upstream tarball. It
was only necessary in the first place because I wanted to fix an RC bug
with Boost 1.67 (#914061), otherwise the package would have not migrated
to testing.

I usually write a get-orig-source target for such special cases but it
would be much better, if we could just package upstream releases
(tarballs) as usual. I guess this should be discussed with upstream as
well because they rarely provide a new release and a lot of things have
changed since the last stable version.

> 
> I would follow this and first package the new version of performous
> itself (to scratch my own itch and test it), then (if you agree)
> create a performous-tools package which Provides/Conflicts/Replaces
> performous (<< the new version) and upload the two. Perhaps I’ll
> also find tuits to work on performous-composer…
> 
> Feedback, agreement, disagreement, anything?

If this all leads to a better user experience and a better game, then
I'm all for it.

Regards,

Markus



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