Comments regarding cytadela_1.0.0-1_multi.changes

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On 2010-05-29, Sylvain Beucler <beuc at beuc.net> wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 06:53:42PM +0200, Torsten Werner wrote:
>> Hi Sylvain,
>> 
>> Sylvain Beucler schrieb:
>> > 'far' contain textures and fonts (somewhat similar to a .zip file).
>> > http://cytadela.sourceforge.net/download.php
>> > 'fareditor' is not packaged in Debian, but is GPL'd.  I used it once
>> > to modify the color of a game texture.
>> > As far as I know that's the preferred format for modification.
>> > 
>> > cmf and 3dg are named after the game maps, so I can only guess that
>> > they represent them, which src/cmf/ appears to confirm.  I don't know
>> > about tools to modify them.  Since upstream cares about compatibility
>> > with the original implementation, I suppose it works on the original,
>> > game-specific data as-is.  Consequently I would say this is the
>> > preferred form of modification, though there's currently no published
>> > tool to modify them.
>> 
>> thanks for your answer. I'm afraid that the data belongs into contrib as
>> long as we don't have the tools in main.
>
> This makes sense.
>
> Do you intend to apply this to other packages in main that have
> similar limitations, such as beneath-a-steel-sky?

beneath-a-steel-sky is not GPLed, so this is moot.

Cheers,
        Moritz