Update and info: m.d.n: http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=sandboxgamemaker http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/s/sandboxgamemaker/sandboxgamemaker_2.4-2.dsc
Ubuntu Karmic PPA: https://launchpad.net/~showard314/+archive/ppa bzr branch for packaging (I have an alioth account but I haven't been added to the games team): https://code.launchpad.net/~showard314/sandboxgamemaker-debian/trunk - I'm a GNOME developer (gnome-power-manager) and member of the Ubuntu MOTU science team. I want to get involved with Debian maintenance, and this is my first totally new package. Although this is a new package, I'm actually more interested in maintaining existing ones than adding new ones and have done some new version upgrades through debdiffs and bug reports. - I received an email about this program (Sandbox Game Maker), and found the whole project intriguing. Upstream really wants an official linux package for this so I helped them by making it. This was attempted once before (sandbox-lite), but it never got uploaded. Sandbox-lite was entirely DFSG, but I think upstream stopped developing it since users were mostly contributing non-free content and the Debian packager didn't finish. I contacted the debian packager of sandbox-lite and asked if she'd want either my help to finish hers or her help on mine, but she declined either - so I started from scratch using the most recent Sandbox release, which is non-free (see below). - This builds two binaries: an architecture dependent game engine, and architecture independent content and game data. The engine depends on the data. - Licenses: The original game engine, networking library, and "movie" engine are all DFSG. The modifications on the game engine are not DFSG as of now. The upstream authors wrote their own custom license which doesn't do what they want it to do, so I'm actually working with them to make their whole project GPLv3 so that the content generated from their project will also be GPLv3. However, right not, this release is non-free. The content is created by users (models, etc), and is a combination of non-free (CC-BY-SA-NC) and free. I tried to remove all non-free content, but the game is pretty much unplayable with out it. I think the long term plan would be to make the game engine free (GPLv3) in contrib, and the content in non-free. - Static linked library: This package includes the enet library, and compiles and statically links it. This is because they use enet from SVN; what we have in debian isn't new enough. Later versions of sandboxgamemaker in Debian can use the shared library for security reasons once enet releases the version in their SVN and we get that in Debian. - Patches: a) their makefile had a typo which I corrected and they have included that change upstream. This typo affects the clean target, so I have to patch the Makefile to clean and then unpatch it. b) I changed the install location to the proper one in Debian. c) The enet library uses autotools to create a configure file, but the Makefile for sandboxgamemaker does not recreate the configure file when you build (you are stuck with their "old" configure file).I patched their makefile to create a new configure file during build, and to clean up all that extra stuff during clean. (Thanks to lintian for pointing that out!) - my get-orig-source target downloads their zip file, deletes windows binaries and .dlls, and cleans up the makefile/autotools problem I described above. - watch file: they don't actually have an easy way of finding their downloads. They post releases on a blog, but the blog doesn't actually link to the download but to a PHP script that has a code number in it which is then converted to a download file. They do this because they have a counter running to have a feel about how many people download their program. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
