Bug#815170: love: New upstream version available

Markus Koschany apo at debian.org
Sun Dec 18 14:24:34 UTC 2016


On 18.12.2016 15:00, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've given up importing the SVN history and used gbp import-dsc instead.
> 
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-games/love.git/
> 
> I've fixed some obvious things, but I now stumble on this:
> 
> 1,4M love_0.9.1.orig.tar.gz
> 114M ../Downloads/docs.zip (from https://love2d.org/wiki/Main_Page)
> 
> -> the documentation has outgrown the core engine so much,
> that I guess it should deserve it's own independant source package
> & that love-doc should be dropped from src:love.
> 
> But this means that there wouldn't be a love-doc in Stretch,
> because this low priority package would have to go through the new queue.

I think people are more interested in an up-to-date love engine at the
moment, so I wouldn't worry too much about the documentation. I would
either package the -docs standalone or use the multi-tarball feature of
dpkg. If you repack the zip file as tar.xz you will probably save some
bytes too.


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