[quake3] Re: [lists] [quake3] Binaries!!!11111

vincent at cojot.name vincent at cojot.name
Thu Jan 26 04:23:56 EST 2006


On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Zachary J. Slater wrote:

> Per Hansen wrote:
>> On GNU/Linux I would like to see a "debian" dir included in the
>> sourcepackage.

> No.
>
> Distributions can do whatever they want with the package once they get it, 
> otherwise they get nothing special inside besides patches they want
> included for interesting or serious reasons. Debian directories in
> source packages are neither serious nor interesting.
> (This is final unless somebody buys Timbo and/or Angst a mac in
> the cause of Debian, at which point I will reconsider)

Does that include all the different dists and platforms?

In ioq2, I have the Solaris pkg templates integrated into the source so 
that people can easily rebuild the Solaris packages if they want to. Also, 
I suppose that whatever is debianized for ioq3 will find its way into 
their mirrors but for Solaris, the 'ioq3' source is most likely the only 
single place where I can 'publish' the pkg templates which I will be 
developping. Or would you just want me to publish this stuff along with 
the installers?

One more thing about packaging stuff: Maybe we could ask iD to 
re-distribute the demo data files? About two or three years ago, I asked 
iD for permission to package and re-distribute the q2 demo data files 
(with due credit and unmodified) so that people who download ioq2 for 
Solaris would actually have something to play with even if they didn't 
have the full game. I got their permission and therefore the full ioq2 for 
Solaris is made of two pkgs, one of them being the demo data files..

Ideas, comments?

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