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+Invitation to a cross-distro/OS games packaging list

+

+

+Hi 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/OS-agnostic list would be better.  At the moment, members of Arch,

+Debian, Fedora, Fink, FreeBSD, Gentoo, NetBSD, Opensolaris, PCBSD,

+Slackbuilds, SuSE and Yellowdog are on this list as well as Gnome and KDE.

+

+As Games are somewhat special in that they in general need more patches than

+other packages and that they often have a dead upstream, we plan to discuss

+some ways there to try and collaborate more.

+

+We have started defining requirements and possible layouts for below-upstream

+repositories. Test repositories are in the works. You can then pull from there

+and get a common, patched version. Specific patches would be applied either  in

+your local repositories via your existing processes or, in cases where such an

+infrastructure does not exist, you could maintain packaging information etc

+within our repository.

+

+

+I hope I managed to interest a few of you and hope to see you on

+games@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