Bug#769965: minetest: please support init.d scripts and a global configuration file

[Martin Quinson]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:16:51PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote:
> 
> I agree that https://bugs.debian.org/733974 is a problem that should be
> fixed for Jessie. I suggest we wait a few more days until Friday and
> give the maintainer a chance to respond to the bug report. However the
> package looks rather neglected to me hence I would like to suggest that
> you just grab my attached debdiff from #733974 and NMU the package. I'm
> confident that the changes qualify for an unblock by the release team. I
> hope your last upload to unstable didn't introduce to many changes then
> I think we can get both, the Hurd FTBFS fix and the libjsoncpp fix, past
> the release team.

I just uploaded the fixed package for libjsoncpp. Thanks for preparing
the debdiff, I always feel unconfident to work with packages that are
neither in a git not a svn.

I confirmed that this is enough to fix the problem in minetest. We
just need to get the new libjsoncpp in Jessie, the current minetest
can stay.

If you quickly know how to request that unblock, I'd be really
grateful if you could do so, please.
 
> I think we should get in contact with Dominik George who already
> packaged some Minetest mods in the past. Perhaps he might be interested
> to package one of the other popular mods from this list
> 
> http://minetest.net/mods
> 
> He probably just needs a sponsor. Michael Dorrington also advertised his
> interest in packaging some Minetest mods on the mailing list not very
> long ago.

I'm ok with helping if I'm contacted, but I wont seek for more work
myself ;)

[...]

> I intend to finish the systemd integration until Friday. I think we
> could try to achieve something similar like Fedora and use instantiated
> services, so that you could run multiple Minetest servers at the same time.
> 
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/minetest.git/tree/minetest@.service
> 
> I will also add logrotate support to the server package, so that all log
> files are rotated on a regular basis.

That'd be perfect, indeed.

The last issue that naggles me about minetest is whether we should
switch to freeminer at some point. The upstream community have forked,
and I cannot decide which version is the best one. We should maybe
package both, but that also seem to unnecessary burden the Debian
archive. There too, your advice would be very welcome.

Thanks for your time,
Mt.

-- 
Technique sans politique n'est que renforcement des nuisants.
     -- Rabelais (traduction en français moderne).
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