Bug#944264: alien-arena: Alien Arena package out of date.

Nic harveynik at gmail.com
Thu Nov 7 00:08:36 GMT 2019


There are three packages associated with Alien Arena in the Debian 
repos, they are alien-arena-data, alien-arena-server and alien-arena itself.

The version of the packages in the debian repos is 7.66 which has long 
been deprecated. There are very few servers for it and it is unsupported 
by COR Entertainment, the current version of Alien Arena is 7.71.1.

The description for the package should read;

Alien Arena is a furious frag fest with arenas ranging from the small, 
to the massive. With game modes such as Capture The Flag and Tactical, 
there are terrific team-based experiences to be had as well as 1v1 
duels, free-for-all and dozens of mutators to alter the game play to 
your liking.

At the bottom of the current description it say that the SDL package 
will be installed, this is unnecessary as Alien Arena doesn't use SDL.

Alien Arena is now available on steam for purchase along with it's DLC. 
The good news is that COR Entertainment are leaving the source code and 
game assets in their svn repository at svn.icculus.org/alienarena/trunk 
for free distribution in linux distributions. This excludes content that 
is specific to the steam version.

Regards,

Nic



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