Bug#771866: megaglest-data: orig-source.tar.xz is missing from the source package

[Markus Koschany]

On Wed, 03. Dec 09:23 Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: megaglest-data
> Version: 3.9.1-1
> Severity: serious
>
> The previous version of megaglest-data (3.7.1-1) included an
> orig-source.tar.xz tarball but this version does not.
>
> http://snapshot.debian.org/package/megaglest-data/3.7.1-1/
> http://snapshot.debian.org/package/megaglest-data/3.9.1-1/
>
> The orig-source.tar.xz corresponded to the upstream
> megaglest-data-source tarball and repository.
>
> https://github.com/MegaGlest/megaglest-data-source
> https://github.com/MegaGlest/megaglest-data-source/releases/download/3.7.1/megaglest-data-source-3.7.1.tar.xz
> https://github.com/MegaGlest/megaglest-data-source/releases/download/3.9.1/megaglest-data-source-3.9.1.tar.xz
>
> The megaglest-data-source repository contains the source data needed to
> build the pre-built data in the megaglest-data repository. We don't
> rebuild from the source data because the process consumes a lot of
> resources/time but we should be distributing the source data for users
> who want to customise and rebuild the data from source.

Ok, agreed. However I feel that users, who are into game content
development, always want to work with the latest version of a game.
Therefore it might be reasonable to assume that they are also willing to
download the sources from testing or unstable in the future and a fix
for the next upstream release was acceptable. The current problem is
that we would need another upload of src:megaglest too because otherwise
the versioned dependencies on megaglest-data became out of sync.
Given the fact that megaglest_editor and megaglest_g3dviewer already
allow users to view and modify the existing content in megaglest-data,
severity important might be an option too.

If you feel strongly about this please go ahead and upload a new version
of megaglest and megaglest-data. I have been experiencing some troubles with my
internet connection lately and uploads have become terribly slow.

Regards,

Markus
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