Bug#447012: prboom: New upstream versions to choose from

[Reuben Thomas]

Package: prboom
Version: 2:2.4.6+dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist

prboom has 2.4.7 (since late 2006). It seems to fix some bugs, so is
worth updating to.

There's also prboom-plus (prboom-plus.sf.net), which has just released
a version based on "[prboom's] most recent stable version, 2.4.8
(SVN)". I'm not quite sure what that means. That it's based on svn
code? That 2.4.8 is tagged in prboom SVN, but not released?

Anyway, prboom-plus is being developed, prboom seems not to be. Also,
prboom-plus seems to be a friendly fork: "The target of the project is
to extend the original port with features that are necessary or useful
for me personally and to all those interested in my work. It is worth
noting that all changes introduced by me in no way break PrBoom's
compatibility with the original Doom/Doom2 engines, and it is possible
to be confident this will never happen in the future since
compatibility is as important a merit of PrBoom as it is to me."

The changelog for the latest release, 2.4.8.2, reads:

"New mouse code was written without SDL lags. Win32 mouse handling was
removed. Boom colormaps are supported in OpenGL mode. New mus-to-mid
conversion code was added. This removes bugs and plays back a lot of
music more like vanilla Doom. PC speaker emulation was added. A wipe
screen effect in OpenGL was added."

Hence, you might want to think about prboom-plus.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'experimental'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages prboom depends on:
ii  freedoom [doom-wad]       0.5-1          free game files for the 3D game DO
ii  libc6                     2.6.1-1+b1     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  7.0.1-2        A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]    7.0.1-2        The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime
ii  libsdl-mixer1.2           1.2.6-3        mixer library for Simple DirectMed
ii  libsdl-net1.2             1.2.7-2        network library for Simple DirectM
ii  libsdl1.2debian           1.2.11-9       Simple DirectMedia Layer

prboom recommends no packages.

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