Bug#424905: Uploading MAME to Debian

2011-01-12 Thread Jordi Mallach
Hi! On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:52:06PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: There is still room for improvement, but the package is quite usable now, so feel free to go ahead :) ! Looking at it! I've made a few changes to make lintian happy, but otherwise the package looked very good. It's being

Bug#424905: Uploading MAME to Debian

2011-01-11 Thread Emmanuel Kasper
Hello Jordi Some update about the status of the package. 11. Comment out Mame rom downloading or move it in a separate package I think this is release critical. My opinion is: - move this stuff to mame-roms-free (if free means libre; if the licences are “free beer”, then I'd go for

Bug#424905: Uploading MAME to Debian

2011-01-11 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 05:33:45PM +0100, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: Would like to be added to our mamedeb mailing lists until we get approved on Alioth ? Sure, I forgot to say yes before. On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:21:51PM +0100, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: Some update about the status of the

Bug#424905: Uploading MAME to Debian

2010-12-27 Thread Emmanuel Kasper
Hello ! If you think having a dedicated MAME group/project is important, I can ask for one. If you think you can live with the Debian Games repository, that's ok also. I'll ask for a pkg-mame project after sending this email, in the meantime. I wrote one month ago to the alioth admins to

Bug#424905: Uploading MAME to Debian

2010-12-27 Thread Jordi Mallach
Hi! Great to hear from you! Let's get this done (ie, let's discuss what's missing): On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 05:33:27PM +0100, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: I wrote one month ago to the alioth admins to request an admission in Debian Games but got no reply. So pkg-game is great in the mean-time. I

Bug#424905: Uploading MAME to Debian

2010-12-26 Thread Jordi Mallach
Hi! Sorry, I've been terribly swamped with different stuff but I still haven't forgotten! On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:15:38AM +1100, Ludo wrote: Back to business after holidays. Thanks a lot Jordi, the MAME package is evolving faster with updates from Emmunuel and Félix. The help of a Debian

Bug#424905: Uploading MAME to Debian

2010-11-14 Thread Ludo
Hi, Back to business after holidays. Thanks a lot Jordi, the MAME package is evolving faster with updates from Emmunuel and Félix. The help of a Debian developer to finalize and (I hope) upload it is greatly appreciated! About Alioth, as said by Emmunuel, we were not allowed to create a project

Bug#424905: Uploading MAME to Debian

2010-11-05 Thread Jordi Mallach
Hi Ludo and Emmanuel! I must have been living in a cave, because I just learned about sdlmame, the merge into mame itself and the efforts to add this to the official Debian repositories. In the ITP bug, I see there's been some confusion in the process to make your packages part of Debian

Bug#424905: Uploading MAME to Debian

2010-11-05 Thread Emmanuel Kasper
I'm a Debian Developer and am willing to help you finish whatever is missing before you can do your first upload. I also offer my help if any of you want to become a DD or a Debian Maintainer. Nice to hear from a prospective uploader :) Ludo did most of the packaging work, I commited some

Bug#424905: Uploading MAME to Debian

2010-11-05 Thread Jordi Mallach
Hi! On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 06:06:06PM +0100, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: Ludo did most of the packaging work, I commited some fix for powerpc. Right now the two packages ( mame and mame-tools) are lintian clean exepct for debian-helper overrides warning and the packaging code is available from