Bug#1070845: Packaging Godot 4.3

[Alexandre Detiste]

Hi,

We can have both godot3 and godot4 for Trixie, under Games Teams,
that would be the best !

(then maybe drop Godot3 after release)

Le lun. 16 sept. 2024 à 07:00, Travis Wrightsman
<travis at wrightsman.org> a écrit :
>
> Hello Games Team,
>
> I have been slowly working towards packaging Godot 4.3 now that the
> stable release is out.
>
> I'm relatively new to Debian packaging and this is a major version
> bump so I'm hoping you all could guide me towards something worth
> uploading :)
>
> I created an MR [0] in Salsa with the current draft of my packaging
> efforts. Currently, it builds successfully on my x86_64 machine but
> there are still some failing unit tests to investigate.
>
> I'm also hoping to get the documentation packaged for offline use as
> well, but it is in a separate repository that doesn't have tagged
> releases.
>
> Things off the top of my head that need wider discussion:
>
> 1. Does it make sense to rename the Salsa repo from godot3 to just
>    godot?
> 2. Does the Salsa repo belong better under the Games Team or
>    where it currently is (plain debian/).
> 3. Should a separate 3.x package continue to be maintained?
>
> Looking forward to hearing people's thoughts, especially current users
> of Godot in Debian.
>
> Cheers,
> Travis
>
> [0] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/godot3/-/merge_requests/3
>