[Kde-games-devel] An invitation to a cross-distro game packaging list

[Eugene Trounev]

I'm sure I won't be alone here if i say that we are MORE then interested. We 
have been discussing this very topic within out own package for a while now. 
It would be interesting to speak about it in details. One possible way would 
be if one of us was invited over to the packager's meeting (on IRC of course), 
other way would be for them to come to ours.

On Friday 28 November 2008 11:36:55 Richard Hartmann wrote:
> Hi KDE games team :)
>
>
> I am not sure if this is interesting to anyone on this list, but I
> will just paste
> the blurb and let you decide. At worst, please ignore this email. As you
> will see, this is geared towards game pacakgers, not upstream, but who
> knows? You might be interested, after all.
>
>
> The Debian and Ubuntu games teams have merged completely and the Fedora
> team has been working more and more with us to reduce duplicated work. We
> have been using the Debian games mailing list until now, but we decided
> that a distro-agnostic list would be better. Gentoo, SuSE and FreeBSD,
> NetBSD, Slackware and Arch are starting to hop on board and the more the
> merrier :)
>
> As Games are somewhat special in that they in general need more patches
> than usual packages and that they often have a dead upstream, we plan to
> discuss some ways there to try and collaborate more.
>
> We will start defining requirements and possible layouts for
> below-upstream repositories, soon. You could then pull from there and
> get a common, patched version. ports-specific patches would be applied
> in your local repositories via your existing processes.
>
>
> I hope I managed to interest a few of you and hope to see you on
> games at lists.freedesktop.org [1] soon. For an introduction, read
> Miry's email [2] and mine [3].
>
>
> Richard
>
> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/games
> [2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/games/2008-November/000006.html
> [3] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/games/2008-November/000011.html
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