Package: uqm Version: 0.6.2.dfsg-5 Severity: wishlist I see that the non-DFSG-free content for Ur-Quan Masters is mostly available at http://uqm.debian.net/. I also see that the manual is non-DFSG-free, and is therefore part of the upstream distribution but not the Debian package in main. This is good. However, I also see that the manual does not appear to be distributed at the secondary repository either, nor in the primary non-free APT repository (there is no "uqm-doc" package or similar that I can detect). I also see that there is no indication in the package description of where to get the manual, nor anything in /usr/share/doc/uqm about it; the closest thing I can find is a description in the changelog that says that the manual was removed, and (if you read it carefully enough) lets you know implicitly that you have to go to upstream in order to find it.
This would be okay if there were enough in-game help to be able to tell what anything means, but there is not, creating an unintended and frustrating metagame. "You have been placed in command of a small set of spaceships, with no memory of how any of the controls work or what your mission is..." Finding the manual on the Web took several steps and blind alleys, because it only seems to appear inside the upstream sources. This is not optimal. I would suggest putting the manual into a secondary uqm-doc package in non-free, if possible, and mentioning this in the uqm package description. (GFDL'd docs and the like have precedent for being moved to non-free rather than removed entirely, at least. I don't know whether CC-BY 2.0 is acceptable for non-free or not.) ---> Drake Wilson -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages uqm depends on: ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.0.2-4 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libmikmod2 3.1.11-a-6 A portable sound library ii libsdl-image1.2 1.2.6-3 image loading library for Simple D ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-2 Simple DirectMedia Layer ii libvorbis0a 1.2.0.dfsg-3 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libvorbisfile3 1.2.0.dfsg-3 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii uqm-content 0.6.0-1 The Ur-Quan Masters - Game data fi ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime Versions of packages uqm recommends: ii uqm-music 0.6.0-1 The Ur-Quan Masters - Game music f -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
