Mike Gerwitz writes: > There is a game my kids love playing named Secret Mayro > Chronicles. Unfortunately, it's been unmaintained since 2012, and it > was removed from Debian because it is no longer compatible with newer > versions of libraries they package.[0] There is a maintained fork of > the game, but it's quite different from the original (intentionally). > > I have the option of compiling it using old libraries (I would have to > compile the old libraries' dependencies as well, as needed), upgrade the > game by backporting changes from the fork (which I honestly doubt I have > the time for right now, but I'll look into it), or run the game within a > VM/container running an old Debian version. > > I'm going to look into what is required to backport, but if I decided to > go the first route, I would probably use Guix. Would such a > contribution be accepted considering it packages older libraries, which > would add some cruft? At the least, I would have to compile CEGUI0.7, > but that might need older versions of libraries itself to compile. > > > [0]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812096
Regardless of whether older versions of libraries would be accepted upstream, you can also keep them in a separate repository or directory and use the environment variable GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH to include them in your Guix. Kind regards, Roel Janssen
