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

[Markus Koschany]

On 18.11.2014 22:27, Martin Quinson wrote:
[...]
> Actually, the main thing would be to upload a new version of
> libcppjson to fix that bug that affects minetest. But the upstream
> package seems to be rather different in the new versions, so I'm
> afraid that we will need to repackage it from scratch. Not necessary a
> big deal but I did not find the time to do so so far.

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 am the packager of a mod which has a new upstream release, but
> that's actually a pre-release of the next stable so I'm just waiting
> for upstream here. 
> 
> I'm not sure that packaging more mods would make much sense at this
> point. What do you think?

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.

> The ubuntu bugs may need some triage, but I don't know how to modify
> them. Some of them are so old that they probably just need to be
> closed. I just reported ubuntu's #1379551 to upstream on their IRC.
> 
> Oh, and I forgot. I'm not solvent ;-)

I think some of those bugs can be closed. I will have a look later.

[...]
> If so, I'd be glad to upload a new version as soon as you merge your
> changes to master.
> 
>> I also plan to provide a .service and .socket file for systemd in the
>> future as soon as I have more time to test them.
> 
> That would be another TODO-- for me ;)

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.

Cheers,

Markus



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