Bug#1004844: games-finest: Consider adding endless-sky

Wed Feb 2 08:58:43 GMT 2022

Package: games-finest
Version: 4
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: dave at vasilevsky.ca

Hi,

Thanks for all your work maintaining debian-games.

It's been a few years since we've added anything new to games-finest, and I
think endless-sky would be a great choice. It's pretty polished, and runs
great in Debian even on basic GPUs. It has shown up on several
best-of-open-source lists, eg:

* https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/open-source-video-games/
* https://www.slant.co/topics/1933/~best-open-source-games
* https://medium.com/swlh/free-open-source-linux-games-that-are-actually-good-6cb97177c6e6

There aren't many other games in debian main like it: I guess just naev and
oolite (oldstable), and none of those are in games-finest. Also, the popcon
numbers for endless-sky are already ahead of several other simulation games
in games-finest:

   253  bsdgames
   116  openttd
    77  unknown-horizons
    67  flightgear
    47  pinball-data
    43  foobillardplus
    40  lincity-ng
    40  micropolis
--> 38  endless-sky
    36  bzflag-client
    14  cultivation
    14  searchandrescue

I hope I've made a good case! Thanks again.

-V   

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-11-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages games-finest depends on:
ii  games-tasks  4

Versions of packages games-finest recommends:
ii  0ad               0.0.23.1-5+b1
ii  7kaa              2.15.4p1+dfsg-1
ii  a7xpg             0.11.dfsg1-10+b1
ii  abe               1.1+dfsg-4
ii  ace-of-penguins   1.5~rc2-4
ii  alex4             1.1-9
ii  armagetronad      0.2.9.1.0-2
ii  asc               2.6.1.0-7+b2
ii  atomix            3.34.0-2
ii  bastet            0.43-6+b1
ii  berusky           1.7.2-1
ii  biniax2           1.30-5
ii  blobby            1.0-3+b1
ii  bloboats          1.0.2+dfsg-3
ii  blobwars          2.00-1.2
ii  blockattack       2.6.0-1+b1
ii  bsdgames          2.17-28
ii  btanks            0.9.8083-9
ii  burgerspace       1.9.3-1
ii  bzflag-client     2.4.20-1
ii  caveexpress       2.5.1-1
ii  cgoban            1.9.14-19
ii  chromium-bsu      0.9.16.1-2
ii  cultivation       9+dfsg1-2+b2
ii  dreamchess        0.3.0-1
ii  empire            1.16-1
ii  enigma            1.20-dfsg.1-2.2
ii  epiphany          0.7.0+0-6
ii  extremetuxracer   0.8.0-1
ii  flare-game        1.09.01-1
ii  flightgear        1:2020.3.6+dfsg-1
ii  foobillardplus    3.43~svn170+dfsg-6
ii  freeciv           2.6.3-1
ii  freecol           0.11.6+dfsg2-3
ii  freedroidrpg      0.16.1-6
ii  freeorion         0.4.10.1-1+b2
ii  frozen-bubble     2.212-9+b3
ii  funguloids        1.06-14+b1
ii  funnyboat         1.5-11
ii  gnubg             1.06.002-4+b2
ii  gtkatlantic       0.6.3-1
ii  hedgewars         1.0.0-14+b1
ii  holotz-castle     1.3.14-11
ii  hyperrogue        11.3o-1
ii  kobodeluxe        0.5.1-10
ii  koules            1.4-27
ii  lbreakout2        2.6.5-2
ii  lincity-ng        2.9~git20150314-4
ii  liquidwar         5.6.5-2
ii  lmemory           0.6c-10
ii  lugaru            1.2-5
ii  manaplus          1.9.3.23-6
ii  marsshooter       0.7.6-5
ii  megaglest         3.13.0-6
ii  micropolis        0.0.20071228-10
ii  minetest          5.3.0+repack-2.1
ii  nethack-console   3.6.6-2+b1
ii  nettoe            1.5.1-3
ii  neverball         1.6.0+git20180603-3
ii  neverputt         1.6.0+git20180603-3
ii  nexuiz            2.5.2+dp-8
ii  numptyphysics     0.2+svn157-0.5
ii  open-invaders     0.3-5
ii  openarena         0.8.8+dfsg-5
ii  openclonk         8.1-2
ii  openttd           1.10.3-1
ii  pacman            10-18
ii  parsec47          0.2.dfsg1-9+b2
ii  pathological      1.1.3-16
ii  performous        1.1+git20181118-4+b2
ii  pinball           0.3.20201218-4
ii  pingus            0.7.6-5.1
ii  pioneers          15.6-1
ii  pokerth           1.1.2-1.1
ii  powermanga        0.93.1-4
ii  pybik             3.0-3.1
ii  pysolfc           2.6.4-3
ii  raincat           1.1.1.2-4+b1
ii  redeclipse        1.6.0-1
ii  ri-li             2.0.1+ds-10
ii  scorched3d        44+dfsg-7
ii  searchandrescue   1.5.0-2.1
ii  sgt-puzzles       20191231.79a5378-3
ii  solarwolf         1.5+dfsg1-3
ii  sopwith           1.8.4-15
ii  springlobby       0.271-1
ii  supertransball2   1.5-10
ii  supertux          0.6.2-1+b2
ii  supertuxkart      1.2+ds2-1
ii  tecnoballz        0.93.1-10
ii  teeworlds         0.7.5-1
ii  torcs             1.3.7+dfsg-5
ii  torus-trooper     0.22.dfsg1-12+b1
ii  tuxfootball       0.3.1-7
ii  tuxmath           2.0.3-8
ii  tuxpuck           0.8.2-11
ii  ufoai             2.5-6
ii  unknown-horizons  2019.1-3
ii  warmux            1:11.04.1+repack2-4
ii  warzone2100       3.3.0-4
ii  wesnoth           1:1.14.15-1
ii  widelands         1:21-1+b1
ii  xmoto             0.6.1+repack-4

Versions of packages games-finest suggests:
pn  fretsonfire  <none>
pn  gweled       <none>

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