Bug#705702: residualvm: Doesn't it belong in contrib?

Dmitry Smirnov onlyjob at member.fsf.org
Fri Apr 19 00:17:56 UTC 2013


On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 04:56:35 Daniel Schepler wrote:
> I was pleasantly surprised to see this show up in my new packages list this
> morning (I was heavily involved in the development of it for a while).

Thank you for your work. :)


> However, given that it requires data files from either Grim Fandango or
> Escape From Monkey Island to be of any use, wouldn't it make more sense for
> this package to live in contrib rather than main?

That's what I thought as well however to my understanding "contrib" is
for packages that can satisfy their dependencies from "non-free" and
those games will hardly ever will be in "non-free".

ResidualVM is very similar to ScummVM which already belong to "main"
for a while. Also ftp-masters did not object for inclusion of
ResidualVM to "main".

I don't mind moving ResidualVM to contrib (if appropriate) but only if
some experienced DDs will suggest that as well.

Regards,
 Dmitry Smirnov
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