Package: prboom Version: 2:2.5.0+dfsg1-5 Severity: wishlist
I've been using using 'prboom' for years to kill stress. I was disappointed when I moved from a 4:3 monitor to a widescreen monitor that prboom did not take advantage of the 16:10 screen ratio to display more of the virtual world inside the game. Instead, it merely stretched the old field of view to fit the new resolution. At that time (maybe a couple of years ago) I looked around for a smarter replacement for prboom, but gave up pretty quickly and left prboom installed. I remember discovering 'prboom+', and saw some claims in its changelog that it did more with widescreen monitors than ordinary 'prboom' did. I assumed (wrongly) that 'prboom+' would be picked up by Debian. Lately, I've been experimenting with getting open source 2D/3D acceleration for my new Radeon card. I had some problems with OpenGL, but those have been fixed (for the 'radeon' driver, though not the 'radeonhd' driver. I was using 'prboom' as one of my test apps for OpenGL... and I remembered about wanting to try 'prboom+' a long time ago. I finally looked around to check the status of things. I downloaded the Debian source packages for 'prboom', then located the 'prboom-plus' sources here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/prboom-plus/files/ It looks like 'debian/watch' is out of date in 'prboom', but I was able to find 'prboom' sources here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/prboom/files/ I'm planning to borrow the 'debian' directory from the current 'prboom' and fix it up to build DEBs of 'prboom-plus' this weekend. The sources are very similar, but if you look at the dates on those website I listed you will see that 'prboom' is getting stale (a year old now) while 'prboom-plus' had a 2.5.0.5 release on 2009-11-14. As my subject line suggested above, it looks to me like 'prboom-plus' is a better candidate for packaging at this point, if judged by recent activity upstream. (I cannot judge by quality, however, since I have not built and tested 'prboom-plus' yet myself.) Please accept this wishlist bug as a request for comments, and not as a complaint or a demand that 'prboom-plus' be packaged. I just wanted to send an FYI, and get some feedback from the maintainers. Thanks, Dave W. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-rc8-0git091120.desktop.uvesafb (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) 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 prboom depends on: ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgl1-mesa-glx 7.7-0+git37676b39-091115 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libglu1-mesa [l 7.7-0+git37676b39-091115 The OpenGL utility library (GLU) ii libsdl-mixer1.2 1.2.8-6+b1 mixer library for Simple DirectMed ii libsdl-net1.2 1.2.7-2 network library for Simple DirectM ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-5 Simple DirectMedia Layer Versions of packages prboom recommends: ii doom-wad-shareware [doom-wad] 1.9-1.1 Shareware game files for the 3D ga ii freedoom [boom-wad] 0.6.4-4 free game files for the 3D game DO ii timidity 2.13.2-36 Software sound renderer (MIDI sequ Versions of packages prboom suggests: pn game-data-packager <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
