Missing screen shots for games in Debian...

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Hi Markus.

[Markus Koschany]
> there are a lot of KDE games without screenshots. It seems that this
> page also lists transitional packages like foobillard which are no
> longer present in Stretch and were replaced by another game like
> foobillardplus. You will also find engines and -data packages without
> screenshots (like darkplaces) but there is a corresponding screenshot
> for the game (Nexuiz) already.

The screenshot page explain at the top how the list is generated based
on debtags.  Packages with the tags use::gameplaying, role::program and
interface::x11 are listed, grouped by the game::* tag.  If transitional
packages have these tags, I suspect they are incorrectly tagged.

> However I agree that there could be more screenshots especially for
> the KDE games and I doubt that
> https://blends.debian.org/games/debtags-screenshots.html lists all
> available games in Debian. You will get a better overview if you visit
> https://blends.debian.org/games/tasks/finest and the related
> debian-games blend pages.

If I understand you correctly, you say that the games in Debian are
badly tagged with debtags.  If this is true, it is a bit sad.

I had a look using this oneliner, and, it seem like several games lack
the appropriate debtags.

  for p in $(apt-cache show games-finest|grep Recommends:|cut -d: -f2-|tr -d ,); do if debtags show $p|grep Tag: | grep use::gameplaying | grep role::program| grep -q interface::x11; then :; else echo $p;fi; done

There are the packages missing (in Jessie) the three debtags used to
populate the screenshot list (I already fixed abe): abe bastet berusky
bsdgames bzflag-client empire extremetuxracer flare-game flightgear
freedroidrpg fretsonfire manaplus micropolis minetest nettoe openclonk
performous triplea tuxfootball unknown-horizons.

> Years ago we had screenshot parties but this was even before I joined
> the team in 2012. For a long time now there has been a do-it-yourself
> attitude around here, in the best case people care for their own
> packages but are rarely interested in doing anymore than that. You
> could organize such a party by starting a thread on debian-games-devel
> and/or ask the publicity team to promote such an event and perhaps a
> few people might turn up.

Aha.  I lack the capasity to organize such parties myself, but hope
someone see the advantage of doing it. :)

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen