On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > My _personal_ opinion is that neither flight-of-the-amazon-queen nor > beneath-a-steel-sky should be in Debian. I remember when I was playing > beneath-a-steel-sky and got stuck in some scene. After a while I went to > check the source code for clues and was really surprised when there was > only some 70 MB blob. However, since this is "just" a game I'm not > trying to stop you or anything, just want to know that there are people > who don't really like such blobs :)
I agree and believe that distributing practically unmodifiable software to our users is a violation of the spirit (but probably not the letter) of the social contract and DFSG (especially item 3). Whenever I take over upstream for a game, I try to convert whatever crap they made available into proper source instead. I also try to encourage upstreams to use proper, modifiable, source and wrote some guidelines for that. I would encourage the rest of the team to do that too. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Games/Upstream#Source -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
