On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:03:51PM -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Fabian Greffrath <fab...@greffrath.com> > wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 20.08.2013, 14:30 +0200 schrieb Markus Koschany: > >> Having both versions of supertux in two different source packages > >> available in Debian is a good and user friendly idea IMO. At one point > >> in the future, when the 0.3 series is considered stable, we will most > >> likely switch to that but I see no problems with providing two different > >> versions for now. > > > > -1 > > > > Sorry, but I find it pointless to provide two versions of a specific > > game. Especially in this case, where "stable" means "ancient and > > unmaintained" and "unstable" is the current developement tree. I think, > > Debian should contribute to the game's development by shipping only the > > version that is currently worked on upstream. > > We do provide two versions of a specific game, e.g. the Battle for > Wesnoth, where we have src:wesnoth-1.11 (development) and > src:wesnoth-1.10 (stable), and before that, wesnoth -1.9 and > wesnoth-1.8 as well. Admittedly it's not exactly the same situation as > wesnoth is a much larger project and their stable branch is well > maintained and kept up to date with bug fixes, which I can't really > say for supertux.
As I understand it, the main reason for the multiple Wesnoths is multiplayer network protocol compatibility. That doesn't apply to supertux. > At this point, I see 4 options: > > 1) status quo - leave supertux 0.1.x in sid, and supertux 0.3.x in > experimental > 2) only ship development version - upload supertux 0.3.x to unstable > 3) offer both versions, defaulting to development version when user > runs apt-get install supertux (current option used in Ubuntu) - > src:supertux-stable offering 0.1.x, src:supertux offering 0.3.x > 4) offer both versions, defaulting to stable version when user runs > apt-get install supertux - src:supertux offering 0.1.x, > src:supertux-experimental or src:supertux2 offering 0.3.x > > If we can't reach any consensus, and it seems like we can't, then I'll > just go with option 1 (do nothing) and leave this bug open. As a Personally, I'd argue for 2, or failing that 3. > consolation of sorts for Josh, I've uploaded the latest development > release of supertux (0.3.4) for you to enjoy. ;) Thanks. :) - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
