Am 24.09.2012 08:12, schrieb Didier Roche: > Bryce, therere are few things that needs to be cleared of: > > ""general, including commercial games. Including this package in main will > address an issue that inhibits a number of games from "just working"."". > What's the goal for having this library in main? The packages from the Inidie > humble bundle will dep on it, and so install it when needed, isn't it? How > is that preventing commercial games for Ubuntu? > You maybe mean not packaged application, and so you want to install s2tc by > default, not just seed it in supported? > Please clarify.
Many games come as self-extracting archives which don't really have dependency-resolving capabilities. That is pretty much the only reason. All other kind of packages could simply put in a recommendation for the package. > * on the package itself, the patch debian/patches/01-library-rename.patch is > renaming the library for the dynamic linking object: > -s2tc_compress_LDADD = -ltxc_dxtn > -s2tc_decompress_LDADD = -ltxc_dxtn > +s2tc_compress_LDADD = -ltxc_dxtn_s2tc > +s2tc_decompress_LDADD = -ltxc_dxtn_s2tc > So, I guess the game has to be explicitely recompile against our version. The > "not packaged application" is then not addressed. I do not see why this > library won't just be a dep on the game then (and don't need main promotion). > Even if I do see we are using an alternative for it (but multiarched) This is actually part of the modular s3tc interface. The library is also available as libtxc_dxtn via update-alternatives. And no application is linking against this library either way. This is a module which is loaded by mesa not by the application itself. Games can improve the texture quality if they used the s2tc toolkit to compress their textures but s3tc compressed textures will also work through the compability functionallity of s2tc. > * just a nitpick: would be nice to have debian/copyright corresponding > to latest DEP5. The package is slightly older than the stable standard but should adhere to all specifications. So the format version can simply be changed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1053065 Title: MIR for s2tc, required by various games To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/s2tc/+bug/1053065/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
