Re: [Adonthell-devel] Re: Adonthell/Debian

[cirrus]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeet!

        -James

Alexandre Courbot wrote:

> > Hi,
> > I recently found out about Adonthell and am hooked to playing Waste's
> > Edge now. I am a Debian developer and would really like to see this
> > game become part of Debian. That's when I noticed the debian/
> > directory in the source tree - what are your plans regarding
> > Adonthell? Do you intend to continue packaging it? Or would you mind
> > handing over the packaging to me (not trying to take away your work,
> > just though I'd ask straight away)?
>
> Hi Gordon,
>
> This is a dream becoming true! ;) I have been maintaining the Debian
> i386 packages because there was no better solution yet. Someone else
> contributed Debian alpha packages, and so far we maintained our own apt
> entry at http://savannah.gnu.org/download/adonthell/debian. But I am not
> a Debian developer myself (I'd really love to apply, but I fear I'll
> lack the time and won't be able to be very efficient), and I don't know
> the deb system as well as I should to produce good packages - therefore
> they are probably a bit clumsy (not to mention the dirty way I've built
> the apt tree - I really shouldn't be allowed to live for that! ;)).
>
> Being a part of the most popular distribution is what every free
> software developer wish for his programs. So we'd be very, very happy if
> you open us the gates of Debian. Obviously, in these conditions I'd be
> glad to hang over the Debian packaging to you! And as we don't release
> that often, this shouldn't be much work! ;)
>
> Maybe you can have a look at the existing packages to get an idea of how
> the game is built. Basically the engine (adonthell) is architecture
> dependent, while the game (wastesedge) is the same package for all the
> architectures.
>
> I've CCed this mail to the Adonthell Developers list, as they'll
> probably be happy to learn this. Adonthell in SID soon? That'd rock! ;)
>
> Thanks for your interest anyway - I'm available if you need to know
> anything about the game or the packages I've made. And thank you so much
> in the name of all the developers for the chance you are giving us!
>
> Alex.
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