Bug#1070845: godot (3.6+ds-1) to be uploaded to Debian unstable in a couple of days

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hi,

Sorry for cross-posting to both bug, package maintainer mailing list
and team mailing list, but I just wanted to ensure that previous
maintainers are aware that Travis adopted this package in September,
and as I stepped up to mentor him recently, we are now at the point
that a new Godot version will be uploaded in coming days.

Please speak up if you strongly object to this. Otherwise, I will
proceed with upload.

You can see a diff of how the files and `debian/control` changed after
some excellent work from Travis to use more dependencies from Debian
instead of the bundled ones:
https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/godot3/-/merge_requests/10#note_560215

The above link is the main MR for the 3.6 import. Full commit list of
course at https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/godot3/-/commits/debian/latest

Note also that we fixed the Salsa CI, so it both runs the whole
pipeline, and jobs pass and are green.

If you have feedback/suggestions of changes before upload, you can
either share feedback here or submit a Merge Request for exact change
requests.

We will also later work on Godot 4.3, and the goal is to have both 3.6
and 4.3 (or 4.4 if it comes out in time) exist in Debian repositories
in parallel at least in of Trixie. Details of our plan for that will
follow later. This email was sent for the purpose of heads-up of
imminent upload.


- Otto

PS. While doing this packaging we leveraged as much as possible of all
state-of-the-art tooling in Debian, such as git-buildpackage dual
tarball and git tag import, DEP-14 branches, Salsa CI, code reviews,
proper git commits etc. I skimmed through the games team docs at
https://wiki.debian.org/Games/VCS,
https://wiki.debian.org/Games/Development/BuildProcess,
https://wiki.debian.org/Games/ToolsDiscuss but intentionally decided
to not follow those guidelines as they seem outdated (describing
mostly alioth and svn stuff from 10 years ago).