Your message dated Mon, 7 Jun 2010 16:54:55 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#584888: ITP: boing26 -- Boing! Amiga demo port for the
Atari VCS 2600
has caused the Debian Bug report #584888,
regarding ITP: boing26 -- Boing! Amiga demo port for the Atari VCS 2600
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Stephen Kitt <st...@sk2.org>
* Package name : boing26
Version : 5
Upstream Author : Rob Kudla <webmas...@kudla.org>
* URL : http://www.kudla.org/raindog/games/
* License : Public domain
Programming Lang: Assembler
Description : Boing! Amiga demo port for the Atari VCS 2600
Boing! is a small demo based on the famous Amiga-based bouncing ball
demo.
.
This game is distributed as an Atari VCS 2600 ROM. You will need a
VCS 2600 emulator in order to view it, such as Stella.
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Hi Holger,
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 04:39:20PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Montag, 7. Juni 2010, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> > I wanted to package it so that stella could move to main - admittedly
> > on somewhat of a technicality...
>
> /me is speechless, roles eyes and laughs :-)
I'll just laugh along!
> > Given its size (the current .deb is 6k), it might be worth simply
> > bundling it with stella, in a multiple-tarball 3.0 format.
>
> That sounds way better to me.
>
> But technically a package doesnt need to have something in main to work with.
> It just needs to exist. Somewhere. If this bouncing ball demo is like those
> free games (which are free software( for mame emulators stella can probably
> go into main anyway.
OK, thanks for clarifying. I'll just mention it in the README.Debian
in the stella package, along with some pointers to other possible
sources of DFSG-free games.
I'm closing the ITP, there's no point poluting Debian with packages
such as these...
Thanks for your time,
Stephen
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