Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.1.5+dfsg-1 of the package "fceux". FCEUX is a very capable NES (Original 8-bit Nintendo) emulator, with a GTK and SDL front-end. Joe Nahmias <[email protected]> is the current holder of the ITP of this package, but nothing has happened so far during the 1.5 years he has been holding the ITP. I have been in contact with him, and he has stated that he intends to package FCEUX. He stated that he wanted to wait for upstream to make some changes though, before packaging it. I have not been able to get a response from him detailing what these changes are, but I managed to get in contact with the person from upstream that he had been in contact with. According to Lukas Sabota <[email protected]> (aka punkrockguy318), the current main developer of the SDL/Linux port, the main concerns were:
1.Static compilation of Lua 5.1 with a bundled version I had missed that this was performed. My new updated package builds against the system Lua 5.1. Upstream does not seem to want to change this. 2. Redistribution of some directx headers within "src/drivers/win" I already repack the tarball to remove the files in question, as well as some other files. Upstream has offered to provide a tarball without these files, but that seems both unnecessary and cumbersome to maintain for us, and bad for watch-files. There were also a few other minor issues, which he submitted patches for and which were incorporated into FCEUX. It is so far unclear whether these are included in 2.1.5, but I don't consider this very important. Other things I have changed in this version of the package: * The package now installs the palettes and Lua scripts that come with FCEUX. * The GtkFileChooser dialogs for opening palettes and Lua scripts now default to showing the directories where they were installed by the package, to improve usability. * debian/copyright was extended with licenses for a few files I had missed in src/drivers/win. The package builds these binary packages: fceux - Cross-platform Famicom/NES emulator The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 612245 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/package/fceux - dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fceux/fceux_2.1.5+dfsg-1.dsc Kind regards Alexander Toresson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cam9mdpcv6shvtrt+l6c3c6x_w4ur8ppcsqxnc0hdtbmtkhm...@mail.gmail.com
