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

[Markus Koschany]

On 19.11.2014 09:27, Martin Quinson wrote:
> 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.

Thank you.


> 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.

It's quite easy

reportbug release.debian.org

and then a short explanation why you want that unblock + the debdiff
against the version in testing. I'll take care of it.



>> 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 ;)


Ok, fair enough.

[...]

> 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.
> 

I think we should stick with Minetest for the time being because I
perceive the goals of freeminer as rather vague and I don't see any kind
of big improvements that would justify a switch. I'm also quite
reluctant when it comes to forks. They should really prove that they are
the better alternative and I can't see that currently with freeminer.
There is also only one server at the moment

http://servers.freeminer.org/

and the Minetest community is much more vital and active.

> Thanks for your time,
> Mt.

Regards,

Markus


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