New Godot version preparation in progress

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hi all,

Godot is a multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine. The 3.5.2 version
currently in Debian is from March 2023. Trevor Wrightsman is an
aspiring Debian maintainer and currently working on packaging an
update of Godot. I started mentoring him yesterday because this
exceptionally large package (source 43 MB, uncompressed work files 264
MB, git history 2.5 GB) can benefit from my experience with other very
large packages.

The package maintainer field lists it under the Debian Games Team so I
wanted to ping this list and let you know this is in progress. Let me
know if you have any opinions about Godot. For example, we are
currently pondering if it makes sense to prioritize importing the
latest 3.6, or newest release 4.3 into Debian. The 3.6 is a long-term
supported version and supposedly fully backwards compatible with 3.5.x
and older, while 4.x series is recommended for all new projects. The
policy does not state any specific timelines for support.

References:
- https://github.com/godotengine/godot
- https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/godot
- https://salsa.debian.org/debian/godot/-/merge_requests
- https://godotengine.org/article/godot-3-6-finally-released/
- https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-0-sets-sail/
- https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/about/release_policy.html


Cheers,

Otto

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