Re: [Openmortal-discuss] Openmortal and Debian.

[Viktor R. <ef...@go...>]

Hi fenio, UPi & all,

Sorry about the late reply, I was asleep and then at work. I live in 
Sydney and we're 9 hours ahead of CET...

Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
>>I suggest that you two join forces! Viktor has already created a man page
>>for openmortal (a requirement for debian packages, I hear), it would
>>really be a shame to duplicate the effort.
> 
> 
> Sure I would like to join efforts. I just wonder why he didn't filled an
> "Intend To Package" bugreport in Debian's BTS. 
> That's the way how Debian tries to not duplicate efforts.
> I filled such bugreport yesterday. http://bugs.debian.org/248751
Good, let our forces be joined then... or something like that ;)

I looked at the "intent to package" list before I started. The reason 
why I didn't file a bugreport was because I didn't know the official 
package build process (the two packages I built so far were based on the 
unofficial 'Debian Binary Package Building HOWTO' by Clemens Lee. I was 
meaning to read the official guides to see if I can build a package 
using the correct tools first.

> 
> Viktor maybe you would like to create unofficial packages?
> I'm not Debian developer too, but I'm at last stage of process now, 
> and if we will make useful, policy correct packages then I could search 
> for sponsors for upload. 
I actually have a package built already, using the unofficial process. I 
have checked it and fixed all of lintian's warnings & errors. This 
mainly involved removing #!/usr/bin/perl -w from the *.pl files that had 
it, adding a man page, changelog, changelog.Debian and a possibly 
incorrect DEBIAN/control file (dependencies are almost certainly wrong 
and I'd like to have a better description). I also didn't separate out 
the character files although this would be a really good idea.

I'd be happy to create unofficial packages. I'd also be just as happy to 
work with you if you want to become the package maintainer. I would also 
like to ask you for help with submitting the package for another game I 
packaged: Danger from the Deep -- http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net
Perhaps someone would be interested in uploading it.

I might meet a couple of debian developers this Sunday and I could ask 
them if they are interested or know someone who's interested in 
sponsoring openmortal.