Bug#960162: RFS: mgba/0.8.1+dfsg-1 -- Game Boy Advance emulator
X-Debbugs-CC: r...@nardis.ca Hi Ryan, On Tue, 12 May 2020 12:30:16 -0700 Ryan Tandy wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 09:22:23PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > >Hijacks are bad… > >However there is the package salvaging process, please check if it is more suitable: > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging > > Thanks for the pointer. I think "team upload" is a better description of > what I'm attempting, but it didn't seem quite accurate as I'm not (yet) > a member of the relevant team. > > I will check with the games team to see what they prefer, and will > follow the salvaging process if that's best. Thanks for your interest in the package. I'd suggest to start the Salvaging process if * you are really interested in maintaining it * the package is suitable for Salvaging (see definitions in Developers Reference) * no one has objection on salvaging in the Games Team (Even though I'm in the Games Team, I'm speaking on behalf of myself this time. This email copy is also sent to Sergio.) -- Thanks, Boyuan signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#960162: RFS: mgba/0.8.1+dfsg-1 -- Game Boy Advance emulator
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 09:22:23PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: Hijacks are bad… However there is the package salvaging process, please check if it is more suitable: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging Thanks for the pointer. I think "team upload" is a better description of what I'm attempting, but it didn't seem quite accurate as I'm not (yet) a member of the relevant team. I will check with the games team to see what they prefer, and will follow the salvaging process if that's best. thanks, Ryan
Bug#960162: RFS: mgba/0.8.1+dfsg-1 -- Game Boy Advance emulator
Hi Ryan, On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 07:41:27PM -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > > This is a package hijack Hijacks are bad… However there is the package salvaging process, please check if it is more suitable: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging -- tobi
Bug#960162: RFS: mgba/0.8.1+dfsg-1 -- Game Boy Advance emulator
Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal
Dear mentors and games team,
I have packaged the new upstream version of mgba and am looking for a
sponsor to upload it.
This is a package hijack as I have not been able to contact Sérgio (also
including him in X-D-CC here). I am interested in (co-)maintaining mgba
going forward. I'm not a member of the Games Team but I'm willing to
join if needed. I took the liberty of adding myself to Uploaders here.
There are a couple of lintian warnings about libmgba. The warnings are
not new; I think it has always been packaged this way. It's a private
library used only by mgba-{sdl,qt} and I don't think versioning the
package name is useful. I can look into patching the build system to
install it somewhere more private (i.e. /usr/lib/${D_H_M}/mgba) but it
would be great if that didn't have to block this upload.
The package is on mentors.d.n:
https://mentors.debian.net/package/mgba
https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mgba/mgba_0.8.1+dfsg-1.dsc
I don't have access to the games-team git repo, therefore I forked the
repo under my own namespace. The changes are here:
https://salsa.debian.org/rtandy/mgba (master, upstream, pristine-tar)
The package builds successfully in Salsa-CI and I tested all three
frontends (sdl, qt, and retroarch).
Changes since the last upload:
* New upstream release. (Closes: #950820)
* Exclude vendored rapidjson; add Build-Depends: rapidjson-dev.
- CMakeLists.txt: don't install excluded res/licenses/rapidjson.txt.
* Exclude vendored inih; add Build-Depends: libinih-dev. (Closes: #958247)
- CMakeLists.txt: don't install excluded res/licenses/inih.txt.
* Update debian/copyright with newly added third-party licenses.
* Update Build-Depends: cmake >= 3.1 (since 0.7.0).
* Add Build-Depends: libavfilter-dev to re-enable GIF/Video recording
feature.
* Update Standards-Version to 4.5.0. No changes needed.
* Drop -Wl,--as-needed as this is now the default.
* Update to debhelper compat level 13.
- libretro-mgba.install: Use built-in substitution instead of dh-exec.
- Update *.install and *.manpages to install from debian/tmp.
- Add debian/not-installed.
* Drop patch 01_fix-about-strings. The patch was out of date and the git
revision info is not required since we build from a release tarball.
* Add debian/gitlab-ci.yaml for CI build.
* Add myself to Uploaders.
Thank you,
Ryan
