Hi folks, This is just a heads up.
"game-data-packager" is a contrib package with no reverse dependencies[1]. The package is a newer version of doom-package in Etch. I renamed it shortly after Etch's release as we intended to implement support for various other games (e.g. quake2, quake3). However, that work has not been completed for Lenny. Due to the rename, game-data-packager is currently in the NEW queue. However, it is essentially an incremental upgrade on doom-package. The late upload was due to a last minute backing out of code which dependend on "gdebi", which imho is not stable enough for what we intended to use it for. Once it escapes the NEW queue, I would like to request a freeze exception for it. The package completes two separate transitions for the doom packages in Lenny: * the .deb files that game-data-packager generates include .desktop files that invoke the game. the doom engine package (prboom) dropped it's .desktop file. Doom players now rely on the data packages to provide them. The .debs generated by the existing doom-package will not suffice. * the generated .deb files provides the virtual package "boom-wad", which was introduced post-Etch to clear the path for chocolate-doom to (eventually) be packaged, in Lenny+1 The prboom packages references game-data-packager in several places; so if someone raised an objection to including this package and it could not be let into Lenny, I would have to prepare a prboom package that removed these references and request an exception for that. Although I hope that does not happen :) I shall post to the list again once g-d-p escapes NEW. [1] prboom Suggests: it. Thank you, -- Jon Dowland http://jmtd.net/
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