On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 07:27:23PM -0400, Justin Gerhardt wrote: > > games. Community efforts have so far created distributions for Docker, > Ansible and a number of cloud offerings. I beleive adding a package > for Debian and its derivatives would benefit many users though > easier updates and init system intergration.
The docker and ansible versions that I looked at all download the factorio server executable from factorio.com when run. So they're not packaging/redistributing the server, just automatically downloading and installing it. I didn't see anything on the Factorio website or in the server tarball that says redistribution is OK. So unless you can find something official showing permission to redistribute, you would need to do something similar - package an installer that downloads the package and installs it, then add your init script, etc., as part of that package. > > This is my first time creating a package. I intent to the best > of my abilities maintain it myself. It should be simple enough not to > require a comaintainer. I will need a sponsor for the ultimate inclusion > in the non-free repo games section. If you can get permission to redistribute, I believe non-free is correct. If you wind up creating an installer package, then it could pontentially go in contrib instead, depending on licensing.
