Re: [Openmortal-discuss] Openmortal and Debian.

[Bartosz F. a. f. <fe...@o2...>]

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 02:54:29PM +1000, Viktor Radnai wrote:
> Sorry about the late reply, I was asleep and then at work. I live in=20
> Sydney and we're 9 hours ahead of CET...

That's no problem.
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> >>I suggest that you two join forces! Viktor has already created a man pa=
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> >>for openmortal (a requirement for debian packages, I hear), it would
> >>really be a shame to duplicate the effort.
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> >Sure I would like to join efforts. I just wonder why he didn't filled an
> >"Intend To Package" bugreport in Debian's BTS.=20
> >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 ;)
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> I looked at the "intent to package" list before I started. The reason=20
> why I didn't file a bugreport was because I didn't know the official=20
> package build process (the two packages I built so far were based on the=
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> unofficial 'Debian Binary Package Building HOWTO' by Clemens Lee. I was=
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> meaning to read the official guides to see if I can build a package=20
> using the correct tools first.

Hmm... Correct me if I'm wrong, but did you build only binary package?
Without source package?

Anyway now we have ITP. We could co-maintain it. That's quite huge
package, or even packages.=20

> >Viktor maybe you would like to create unofficial packages?
> >I'm not Debian developer too, but I'm at last stage of process now,=20
> >and if we will make useful, policy correct packages then I could search=
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> >for sponsors for upload.=20
> I actually have a package built already, using the unofficial process.=20

Could you please put it on some webpage? I would like to see it.

> I have checked it and fixed all of lintian's warnings & errors. This=20
> mainly involved removing #!/usr/bin/perl -w from the *.pl files that had=
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> it, adding a man page, changelog, changelog.Debian and a possibly=20
> incorrect DEBIAN/control file (dependencies are almost certainly wrong=20
> and I'd like to have a better description).=20

Dependencies can be easily figure out with pbuilder. I can take care of
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> I also didn't separate out=20
> the character files although this would be a really good idea.

Here goes my idea:

openmortal - only binary + related DOCS (changelog, readme, todo).
openmortal-data (six characters included in -base release + sounds, gfx,
				 fonts, scripts and so on)
openmortal-extra (rest of official characters + 3rd party)

I made already some scripts to achieve that.
I've got openmortal and almost ready openmortal-data.

UPi could you tell me if FighterStats.pl will always contain only
information about official characters?

I thought about some script to copy those .icon.png files automatically.
Something like:=20

`cat FighterStats.pl | grep "'CODENAME'" ....`

But I have to know if there will be always only official characters.
If not, then I have to write some more complicated script which will be
checking if ID < 100.
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> I'd be happy to create unofficial packages. I'd also be just as happy to=
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> work with you if you want to become the package maintainer. I would also=
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> like to ask you for help with submitting the package for another game I=
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> packaged: Danger from the Deep -- http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net
> Perhaps someone would be interested in uploading it.

Wow... I didn't know about this game. Really cool ;)
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> I might meet a couple of debian developers this Sunday and I could ask=20
> them if they are interested or know someone who's interested in=20
> sponsoring openmortal.

Would be nice. Finding sponsors isn't easy task.
Take a look at http://skawina.eu.org/en/pakiety.html to see how many
my packages are waiting for sponsors ;)
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