On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 09:49:27 +0200 Dariusz Dwornikowski <dariusz.dwornikow...@cs.put.poznan.pl> wrote: > > Dariusz Dwornikowski <dariusz.dwornikow...@cs.put.poznan.pl> writes: > > > > > Since the package depends on physfs 2.1, which has not been release > > > yet, we need to wait for the upstream of physfs to release 2.1 and for > > > the package to be in Debian. For now, raceintospace is ready in > > > pkg-games git and can go to Debian when physfs is ready. > > > > Thanks for your efforts in packaging raceintospace. I've noticed that > > Hedgewars used to have a similar problem, which they've solved by adding > > a compatibility layer for PhysFS 2.0. Using this as a starting point, I > > saw that only one more function had to be provided, which I backported > > from the 2.1 branch with some minor modifications. With the attached > > patch, raceintospace compiles and runs with the PhysFS library from > > sid. The compatibility layer checks for the version number of PhysFS, so > > once 2.1 is packaged, the code should automatically stop being included. > > Thanks for that Hendrik, I will test it and preppare a release if it > is ok. > > > > > > The only slight drawback is that Hedgewars is GPL-2 only, so it will no > > longer be possible to ship raceintospace binaries as GPL-2+. But since > > this is only a temporary situation, I think this can be justified. > > Yeah I think so. On the other hand I can see that physfs is not very > actively developed so we could wait a little bit.
It's been 9 months, and physfs 2.1 still doesn't seem to be available in either sid or experimental. This patch seems quite reasonable; is someone still willing to upload raceintospace with that patch? - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
