Bug#799955: RFP: yamagi-xatrix & yamagi-rogue

[Simon McVittie]

Control: retitle 799954 update yquake2/xatrix to 2.03
Control: reassign 799954 game-data-packager
Control: severity 799954 wishlist
Control: tags 799954 - pending
Control: retitle 799955 update yquake2/rogue to 2.02
Control: reassign 799955 game-data-packager
Control: severity 799955 wishlist
Control: tags 799955 - pending
Control: clone 799954 -2
Control: retitle -2 support for "Zaero" Quake II mod
Control: tags -2 = help moreinfo

On 30/09/15 08:36, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Zaero is an unofficial add-on for Quake 2 that has once been sold on CD
> -ROM, but is now available for free (Beer) Download e.g. here:
> 
> http://www.quakewiki.net/archives/teamevolve/zaero_manual.html

Cloning a wishlist bug for this. It should end up rather similar to
xatrix and rogue, I think.

Unfortunately, the download link is broken now that Fileplanet has gone
down. Apparently it should be available somewhere in
<https://archive.org/search.php?query=fileplanet>, but good luck finding
it in there...

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/master/games/quake2-zaero/distinfo
has some hashes for the various files, but no hints about where to get them.

> Another one is Juggernaut, but I am not sure if this is available for
> free...

Yamagi doesn't have game code for this, and while briefly looking for a
download location I found a review saying it's hideously bad, so maybe
not worth bothering with anyway.

> Please note that new versions of these engines have been released at
> Yamagi's site: the rogue add-on is at 2.02 and the xatrix one at 2.03:
> 
> https://github.com/yquake2/rogue/releases
> https://github.com/yquake2/xatrix/releases

I've reassigned these RFPs to g-d-p and made them wishlist. Before
updating the version and sha*sums, a DD should check the diff and make
sure there's nothing malicious or horribly broken in the new release.

I don't think they can be packaged for Debian any other way, because
https://github.com/yquake2/xatrix/blob/master/LICENSE makes derivative
works non-distributable, as far as I can tell. If anyone else disagrees
with my assessment, and wants to take responsibility for packaging these
and getting them past the ftp-masters, feel free to reassign back to
wnpp and turn them into ITPs; but I'm not going to do it.

Similarly, if you think you can convince id lawyers to GPL the
xatrix/rogue game code, you're welcome to try.

    S