This one time, at band camp, Joey Hess wrote: >That's neat, but I wish we at least had quake 1 in contrib for woody. >Woody will be the first release of debian in years and years without the >possbility of quake at all (in main, contrib, or even non-free), I think.
(I'm not yet a d-d, I'm currently halfway through the NM process.) For several months now, it has been my intention to get quake2 debs back into non-free, since they dissapeared from the archive. I have not yet contacted the previous maintainer (Roderick Schertler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) about this, but I've managed to dig up source packages from the depths of Google. I've been working with these to take care of the installation of data files. In any case, I'd still like to be the one to maintain quake2. This is *not* an ITP; the source isn't buildable with gcc yet, and will require a lot of work before packages can be made available. To answer the original poster's question: no, there won't be any quake2 debs for woody's release. My 2c on the location of the package: I'd put it in contrib. The binary would be useless without any data files, which implies a Depends: quake2-data, which as already discussed is non-free; policy dictates that it should be contrib. This doesn't preclude the package moving to main if that dependency is removed, however. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg Virtual reality is its own reward.
