Mame + Mess 0.147

[emmanuel at libera.cc]

Hej Cesare !

> here we are, Mame and Mess now share the same source upstream, so I
> think it's time to change how things work in our packages set.
>
> This is my proposal for the new layout:
>
> Source:
> mame_0.147.orig.tar.xz
>      the main source from mame0147s.zip
> mame_0.147.orig-nplayers.tar.xz
>      nplayers.ini frontends config file
> mame_0.147.orig-history.tar.xz
>      (new) a documentation file for (nearly) each emulated game
>
> Binaries:
> mame_0.147-1_(arch).deb
>      Mame with xml and artwork files stripped whenever possible
> mess_0.147-1_(arch).deb
>      unchanged
> mame-common_0.147-1_all.deb
>      (new) replaces mess-data and serves both mame and mess
> mame-extra_0.147-1_all.deb
>      (new) nplayers.ini + history.dat; more to follow as soon as
> authors allow packaging
> (transitional packages)_all.deb
>      anything in use now plus mess-data stuff
>
> mame.ini and mess.ini would need some change to reflect use of
> mame-common, which would contain all xml files, artworks etc; 
> renaming
> suits better the projects IMO, being Mame the main one and Mess a
> derivative work.
>
> Any other ideas?
>



I would rather keep mess-data as it is right now, I don't think the 
amount of data files in mass is big enough to make sense of a package 
file reshuffling + creating again a transitional package, especially 
since the last package renameing from xmame-x is yet solved.

Great to see we can distribute mame history files as well !

If you start to work on 0.147 if would be great if you can wait to push 
this on the git repo, until this bug is solved as this affects 0.146
(or at least until we have a git branch for 0.146)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=687654

Greetings

Manu