On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Dmitry Smirnov <only...@member.fsf.org>wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 04:56:35 Daniel Schepler wrote: > > I was pleasantly surprised to see this show up in my new packages list > this > > morning (I was heavily involved in the development of it for a while). > > Thank you for your work. :) > > > > However, given that it requires data files from either Grim Fandango or > > Escape From Monkey Island to be of any use, wouldn't it make more sense > for > > this package to live in contrib rather than main? > > That's what I thought as well however to my understanding "contrib" is > for packages that can satisfy their dependencies from "non-free" and > those games will hardly ever will be in "non-free". > The official description from the policy manual: "The contrib archive area contains supplemental packages intended to work with the Debian distribution, but which require software outside of the distribution to either build or function." residualvm seems to fit the "function" part of that description perfectly. > > ResidualVM is very similar to ScummVM which already belong to "main" > for a while. Also ftp-masters did not object for inclusion of > ResidualVM to "main". > The difference is that the ScummVM supported games include some with free data (Lure of the Temptress, Beneath a Steel Sky, Flight of the Amazon Queen). -- Daniel Schepler
