[Trophy-development] Re : Trophy 2.0

[matthieu L. <mat...@ya...>]

Hi,

Thank you for your work on the debian package. Since I am a ubuntu user, I like to have an updated version using official packages

Andrew is the original developer of trophy but he doesn't work on this project anymore. I've never communicated with him, he has stopped working on it a long time ago before I started myself. I guess he has changed his e-mail since.
I don't see your e-mail in tro...@li.... I don't know what happened with that mailing list. I am currently the main developer so always add me in copy if we can't trust the sourceforge mailing list.

I've added the man page in the 2.0.2 tarball. I've just changed what was too "debian specific" (hard coded paths).

I won't be adding license information in the source files in the near future, because I want to stabilise trophy 2.0 (I want it to be available for the next Ubuntu LTS (12.04)) and it's too risky to change all the source files. However, I will in the next "big" release (one day ...) and I'll also try to get closer to the (upstream) rules.

Since you know far better than me about the debian packaging process. I'd like to show you a problem that we have with debian-based distributions for upcoming development:

trophy uses the clan-lib library. Clanlib is now in version 2 but in official debian packages there is only the 1.0 version.
In some others Linux distributions, clanlib is available only in version 2.0
The problem is that the clanlib versions are not compatible between themselves.
Josef has started to port trophy to clanlib 2.0 (https://github.com/jreidinger/trophy-clanlib2) and I would like to switch completely to this version for our future development but we can't because of debian clanlib version.
By googling I've seen that someone has started working on it (http://old.nabble.com/RFS%3A-libclanlib2.2-td30115178.html) but nothing happened for more than a year.

Can you do something about it ? The best thing would be to have both versions available in the debian official package for transitioning (porting from clanlib 1.0 to clanlib 2.0 is not easy).

Thank you in advance,

Matthieu





>________________________________
> De : Andreas Moog <am...@ub...>
>À : matthieu Lecesne <mat...@ya...> 
>Envoyé le : Samedi 11 février 2012 13h49
>Objet : Re: Trophy 2.0
> 
>On 11.02.2012 00:03, matthieu Lecesne wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've fixed the bugs you have noticed in the bug tracker of trophy.
>> Trophy tarball is now available in version 2.0.1
>
>Ok, thanks very much!
>
>> I'm e-mailing you because I've read here : http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.games/5395 that you've forwarded some messages but I didn't receive anything but the bugtracker automatic messages. Did you really forwarded something to us? If Yes, what e-mail address e-mail did you use ?
>
>I mailed the following message to the
>tro...@li... and to an...@mu...:
>
>--Begin
>Hi there,
>
>first of all: Many thanks for developing trophy!
>
>I am the current maintainer of trophy in Debian and I'm in the process
>of updating the package to version 2.0.0.
>
>There are 2 documents I'd like to show you,
>http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Games/Upstream
>http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide
>
>Those contain information on what we (as Debian) do with your package,
>what we need etc.
>
>One of the most important things is (of course) the license. It would be
>very nice to have license headers added to the source code files in src/
>so that there is no doubt about the license.
>
>The lack of the header isn't a problem right now, but please consider
>adding them for the next release.
>
>I'm attaching a manpage for trophy, could you include it in the next
>release?
>
>--End
>> Thank you for what you've done to trophy. Don't hesitate to send me requests or question, I'll be glad to help if I can.
>
>Thanks, I will do that!
>
>Cheers,
>Andreas
>
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