Mail from the Ubuntu mame MOTU

[Emmanuel Kasper]

Le 11/05/2011 18:26, Emmanuel Kasper a écrit :
> So I wrote to the Mame Debian package list too, and the mailer kicked
> back the message
> (please see the attached message).
> 
> Any idea about what's happening? :(
> Yes, I did subscribe my address of course... ;)

No idea, did you also try the command line to subscribe ?

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/resources.html#pts-commands
until then we can CC you

> * mess takes advantage of the multi-tarball feature of
>    debsrc 3.0, as it is distributed as an incremental
>    tarball against Mame source
> 
> As per the splitting, I know it is questionable and I'm
> willing to revert to a single binary, whilst I'd stick with
> the multi-tarball against building the tarball via SVN as I
> consider it more solid. I think we should consider SVN for
> backporting fixes only.

we were discussing this very topic this week and came to the same
conclusion ( multi tarball via debsrc 3.0) no work has started yet AFAIK
though

> The package for mess has not been published yet:
> * it lacks docs and detailed copyright infos
> * mess-tools shares chdman with mame-tools, I'm stuck between
>    *   making mess-tools depend on mame-tool
>    *   turning both to meta packages and breaking them in a
>        set of packages (mame-chdman, mame-ldplayer,
>        mess-whatever...) which the meta packages will then
>        depend on (recommended IMHO)
>

> Phew! That's all for now! Any observation is welcome. :)
> 
> I hope we can help each other to improve Mame both for
> Debian and Ubuntu, and learn from each other as well.

IMHO the best for you would be to ask to join the
http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-games/

this would allow all of us to commit to the same (git sorry) repository.