On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Lukas Geyer wrote: > after unsuccessful attempts to contact the maintainer of gnuchess, Martin > Mitchell (he did not answer at all to my emails), I would like to propose > a change to the packaging of gnuchess. Andreas Tille did at least do an > NMU to update to version 5.03 which fixes several outstanding bugs. One > remaining bug is that gnuchess does not use its opening book. This has in > the meantime been separated from the upstream source, due to its enormous > size. I propose that Debian follows this step and splits gnuchess into > gnuchess and gnuchess-book. The book in the current version is completely > architecture-independent, so this separation makes sense as it only has to > be built on one architecture for all. Furthermore, the book is not bound > to change with every new upstream version of gnuchess, so that people will > not have to download it every time the code changes. I have put up sample > source packages under > > http://www.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de/lsix/geyer/gnuchess/debian While having no time to check your work I really like the idea to split the book from gnuchess. I would have done it myself if it would not be to much change for a NMU.
> My interest in gnuchess comes from the fact that I am co-maintaining the > upstream gnuchess release. It seems to me that the maintainer has no real > interest in the package and before the NMU of Andreas Tille it was > completely broken for several architectures. I would be willing to provide > Debian packages but I am not a member of the Debian project (yet). I'm sure you will find a sponsor for your packages (if not just ask me but I do not want to stay in the first position of the queue because of time constraints). Perhaps you consider to apply as maintainer because I like a stronnection between Debian maintainer and upstream. Anyway, great job, Lukas! Kind regards Andreas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]