Bug#731372: RFA: spring -- modern full-3D RTS game engine

[Martin Quinson]

Unfortunately, I don't have the workpower to adopt spring for now. I
don't even play this game myself :)

Sorry, Mt.

On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:43:35PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote:
> retitle 719618 RFA: spring -- modern full-3D RTS game engine
> noowner 719618
> tags 731372 patch
> thanks
> 
> 
> Hello Jan and Martin,
> 
> I have overhauled the Debian spring package and committed everything to
> the team's git repository. The new package closes almost every bug
> except the ones which require exceptional efforts by upstream, namely
> making spring work on other architectures than amd64 or i386.
> 
> I'm sure that I improved the package but I don't intend to become one of
> the uploaders at the moment. There are far too many embedded third party
> software libraries and I can't see that upstream will try to change that
> in the near future. I'm also a little disappointed that there is no kind
> of security mailing list and only little effort to work with upstream
> developers of embedded libs like assimp to incorporate spring's changes. [1]
> 
> However I would really appreciate it if someone reviewed the current
> packaging work and helped with fixing the current RC bug.
> 
> As far as I can see the springlobby package could also benefit from a
> new upstream release and rapid-spring is no longer supported (see the
> info at the bottom of the page) [2] I don't think it's worth to support
> this package for Jessie.
> 
> In any case
> 
> Happy Christmas!
> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=31300
> [2] http://springrts.com/wiki/GamesDownloads
> 



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