Angband
by Dennis Payne
I was thinking of trying to package Angband. I grabbed the source and a
spec file/patches used by Mageia. I got SDL working but X11 version
doesn't run under wayland. Curses version complained about not finding
a font. Obviously I can work through these but I have a question about
licensing.
Angband is GPL (or the angband license if you prefer). Some items in
the angband tar.gz are not. It explains which ones aren't. Mageia's
patch disables them so they are not installed (at least in theory I
haven't actually confirmed it). Mageia uses a source package of
%{name}-%{version}-libre.tar.xz. I'm guess they may have taken the
angband tar.gz and removed items to create it. Would Fedora require the
same? Can we ship a srpm with non-commercial content like the sounds in
angband?
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Dennis Payne
dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com
Roon's Raccoon Sprintladder: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/126010
5 years, 5 months
Can we revise the games packaging guidelines wiki page?
by Artur Iwicki
During the last year I've submitted some game packages for review, and participated in the review of a few games - and one thing that has resulted in a bit of a tug-of-war was the fact that the Games SIG packaging guidelines say "Spec group file: Amusements/Games", whereas the main guidelines say "The group: tag SHOULD NOT be used".
I took a look at "SIG/Games/Packaging" page [1] on the Fedora wiki, and it seems to be quite old - the revision history says the last edit was made in May 2008, which places it at close to 10 years old.
Could we possibly revise the packaging guidelines to make sure they don't contradict the general guidelines - and if they do, have a clear "yes, this contradicts the main guidelines, do it either way" message? I imagine there might be some other issues on the wiki page that need tweaking - e.g. I don't see all the games I have installed on my system following the "OpenGL wrapper" section. Is this something that's no longer done, or does it still apply and it's the packages that should be fixed?
Thanks,
A.I.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games/Packaging
6 years, 1 month
Re: Fwd: Link no longer valid
by Justin W. Flory
On 03/12/2018 09:51 AM, Robert Mayr wrote:
>
> 2018-03-11 23:30 GMT+01:00 Justin W. Flory <jflory7(a)gmail.com
> <mailto:jflory7@gmail.com>>:
>
> On 03/09/2018 11:53 PM, Evan Gould wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I don't know who the correct person/group is for this:
> >
> > The link to the FreeCiv game website on the main Fedora Games Spin
> page
> > (https://labs.fedoraproject.org/en/games/
> <https://labs.fedoraproject.org/en/games/>) is no longer valid.
> >
> > A message on Freeciv.org says:
> >
> > . 3rd Mar 2018 - The web version of Freeciv, play.freeciv.org
> <http://play.freeciv.org>, has been
> > shut down. The sole volunteer who was running the service is no longer
> > willing to continue doing so.
> > We haven't identified anyone else on the (very small) Freeciv team
> who has
> > the skills and time to run this service hosted on freeciv.org
> <http://freeciv.org>, so you should
> > expect it to be down for the foreseeable future.
> >
>
> Anyone know how to update this information on the Labs website? I'm not
> familiar with the process but maybe someone here on the list knows more.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Justin W. Flory
> jflory7(a)gmail.com <mailto:jflory7@gmail.com>
>
>
> A websites pagure issue is fine for this, normally we contact the spin
> owner when we have changes like that and ask how they want to replace
> this feature.
> Thanks Justin for bringing this up in some way.
> Regards.
>
Hey Evan!
Would you consider filing an issue for this on the fedora-websites
Pagure repo? This will be the best way to make sure it's addressed.
https://pagure.io/fedora-websites/new_issue
Thanks for bringing this up.
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
6 years, 1 month
gcompris-qt
by Andrea Musuruane
Hi!
I'm the father of a 4 years old daughter who likes to play with
gcompris, an educational software suite for children aged 2 to 10.
Not a long ago, I noticed Fedora only ships the legacy gtk version. In
fact, gcompris has been rewritten using qt:
http://gcompris.net/wiki/Developer%27s_corner
Therefore I packaged gcompris-qt and I made a copr repo available:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/musuruan/gcompris-qt/
It would be nice if you (or your kids) could test it and give some
feedbacks.
I plan to submit a review request later on.
Thanks!
Bye,
Andrea
6 years, 1 month
Re: Link no longer valid
by Justin W. Flory
On 03/09/2018 11:53 PM, Evan Gould wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't know who the correct person/group is for this:
>
> The link to the FreeCiv game website on the main Fedora Games Spin page
> (https://labs.fedoraproject.org/en/games/) is no longer valid.
>
> A message on Freeciv.org says:
>
> . 3rd Mar 2018 - The web version of Freeciv, play.freeciv.org, has been
> shut down. The sole volunteer who was running the service is no longer
> willing to continue doing so.
> We haven't identified anyone else on the (very small) Freeciv team who has
> the skills and time to run this service hosted on freeciv.org, so you should
> expect it to be down for the foreseeable future.
>
Anyone know how to update this information on the Labs website? I'm not
familiar with the process but maybe someone here on the list knows more.
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
6 years, 1 month
