An invitation to a cross-distro game packaging list

[Richard Hartmann]

Hi KDE games team :)


I am not sure if this is interesting to anyone on this list, but I
will just paste
the blurb and let you decide. At worst, please ignore this email. As you will
see, this is geared towards game pacakgers, not upstream, but who knows?
You might be interested, after all.


The Debian and Ubuntu games teams have merged completely and the Fedora
team has been working more and more with us to reduce duplicated work. We
have been using the Debian games mailing list until now, but we decided
that a distro-agnostic list would be better. Gentoo, SuSE and FreeBSD,
NetBSD, Slackware and Arch are starting to hop on board and the more the
merrier :)

As Games are somewhat special in that they in general need more patches
than usual packages and that they often have a dead upstream, we plan to
discuss some ways there to try and collaborate more.

We will start defining requirements and possible layouts for
below-upstream repositories, soon. You could then pull from there and
get a common, patched version. ports-specific patches would be applied
in your local repositories via your existing processes.


I hope I managed to interest a few of you and hope to see you on
games at lists.freedesktop.org [1] soon. For an introduction, read
Miry's email [2] and mine [3].


Richard

[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/games
[2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/games/2008-November/000006.html
[3] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/games/2008-November/000011.html