Bug#661329: recommends doom-wad which is only provided by non-free doom-wad-shareware

2012-04-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/30/2012 03:48 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: The difference is that there are millions of videos you can watch with VLC, while there are only a dozen or so iwads for doomsday, none of which are free. And then what? Is it about numbers? Now, let me find another example. We have in the main

Bug#661329: recommends doom-wad which is only provided by non-free doom-wad-shareware

2012-04-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-04-30 09:23 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 04/30/2012 03:48 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: The difference is that there are millions of videos you can watch with VLC, while there are only a dozen or so iwads for doomsday, none of which are free. And then what? Is it about numbers? No,

Bug#661329: non-satisfyable Recommends: in main (was Re: Bug#661329: recommends doom-wad which is only provided by non-free doom-wad-shareware)

2012-04-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/30/2012 05:33 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: Oh joy-of-joys, a context free drive-by-CC to -devel, and a bug which indicates an NMU without warning, DELAYED queue use or nmudiff, for a package to which the maintainer is actively discussing the bug (not MIA), for a maintainer who is just

Bug#661329: recommends doom-wad which is only provided by non-free doom-wad-shareware

2012-04-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-04-23 16:23 +0200, Kees Meijs wrote: On 04/23/2012 04:11 PM, Martin Erik Werner wrote: Hi, sorry, it seems like I didn't get the reply to my mbox, so hence the delay... I'm not actually sure, I think packages like these normally would be placed in contrib, since they depend on some

Bug#661329: recommends doom-wad which is only provided by non-free doom-wad-shareware

2012-04-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/30/2012 12:25 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-04-23 16:23 +0200, Kees Meijs wrote: On 04/23/2012 04:11 PM, Martin Erik Werner wrote: Hi, sorry, it seems like I didn't get the reply to my mbox, so hence the delay... I'm not actually sure, I think packages like these normally would be

Bug#661329: recommends doom-wad which is only provided by non-free doom-wad-shareware

2012-04-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-04-29 21:09 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: It's technically correct. You can Suggests: something from non-free, but you cannot Recommends: it. The solution is to move the package to contrib, then you can do that. Now, what you are suggesting is like saying that VLC should be shipped

Bug#661329: recommends doom-wad which is only provided by non-free doom-wad-shareware

2012-04-23 Thread Martin Erik Werner
Good afternoon, Doomsday Engine is perfectly capable of running with e.g. a commercial WAD file but unfortunately it isn't by using 'boom-wad'. Maybe just removing the 'doom-wad' recommendation does the trick? Best regards, Kees Hi, sorry, it seems like I didn't get the reply to my

Bug#661329: recommends doom-wad which is only provided by non-free doom-wad-shareware

2012-04-23 Thread Kees Meijs
Hi Martin, On 04/23/2012 04:11 PM, Martin Erik Werner wrote: Hi, sorry, it seems like I didn't get the reply to my mbox, so hence the delay... I'm not actually sure, I think packages like these normally would be placed in contrib, since they depend on some non-free content to run at all,

Bug#661329: recommends doom-wad which is only provided by non-free, doom-wad-shareware

2012-04-23 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, in case doomsday can use free data, it probably should Recommend both the free and non-free data packages as alternatives. Just dropping the Recommends seems not very useful to me: installing just a game engine without any data is boring. So if there is no free data, the package should

Bug#661329: recommends doom-wad which is only provided by non-free doom-wad-shareware

2012-02-26 Thread Kees Meijs
Good afternoon, Doomsday Engine is perfectly capable of running with e.g. a commercial WAD file but unfortunately it isn't by using 'boom-wad'. Maybe just removing the 'doom-wad' recommendation does the trick? Best regards, Kees -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to