Debian Bug report logs - #319599
RFP: darkplaces -- improved engine for original quake1

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alexander Fieroch <fieroch@web.de>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Subject: ITP: darkplaces - greatly improved engine for original quake1

Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:14:53 +0200

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

URL: http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/index.html
License: GPL

Description:

darkplaces is a greatly improved engine for quake1 with new advanced 
graphic effects.

Message #10 received at 319599@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Neil McGovern <neilm@debian.org>

To: Alexander Fieroch <fieroch@web.de>

Cc: 319599@bugs.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: ITP: darkplaces - greatly improved engine for original quake1

Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:20:33 +0100

On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 12:14:53PM +0200, Alexander Fieroch wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> URL: http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/index.html
> License: GPL
> 
> Description:
> 
> darkplaces is a greatly improved engine for quake1 with new advanced 
> graphic effects.
> 
> 

This really isn't enough information.

Could you include the following?:
----------------------------------------------
  Package name    : testpackage
  Version         : x.y.z
  Upstream Author : Name <somebody@example.org>
  URL             : http://www.example.org/
  License         : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
  Description     : This is the short description

(Include the long description here.)
----------------------------------------------

Regards,
Neil McGovern
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Message #15 received at 319599@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jon Dowland <lists@alcopop.org>

To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Cc: Alexander Fieroch <fieroch@web.de>, 319599@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: ITP: darkplaces - greatly improved engine for original quake1

Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:34:25 +0100

On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 12:20:33PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 12:14:53PM +0200, Alexander Fieroch wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > URL: http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/index.html
> > License: GPL
> > 
> > Description:
> > 
> > darkplaces is a greatly improved engine for quake1 with new advanced 
> > graphic effects.
> > 
> > 
> 
> This really isn't enough information.

Agreed. Take a look at descriptions for other doom and quake engine
packages to see how it could be done. Here's a stab at a
description, based on the description for Quake2 and material from the
darkplaces webpage:

=========================================================================
Description: improved version of id Software's Quake engine
 darkplaces is a greatly improved Quake engine, featuring much improved 
 bullet impacts, blood splatters, alpha blending and a custom openGL 
 renderer.
 .
 Quake is a 3D action game engine in first-person perspective, commonly
 known as a ``first person shooter''.
 .
 This package contains no data files. You will need to either install
 the commercial Quake data, or alternative free data files.
=========================================================================

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Message #22 received at 319599@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>

To: fieroch@web.de

Cc: 319599@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Dark Places ITP

Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 21:55:55 +0100

Hi,
what's the status of your "Dark Places" ITP, are you still working on
packages?

Cheers,
        Moritz

Message #29 received at 319599@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jon Dowland <jon@alcopop.org>

To: 319599@bugs.debian.org

Subject: status of ITP

Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:43:02 +0100

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Hi, re-pinging this ITP: do you still intend to package
darkplaces?

I'd encourage you to consider joining the debian games team:
<http://wiki.debian.org/Games>. We work on collaboratively
packaging games such as darkplaces. 

If you do not respond or are no longer interested in
packaging darkplaces, I will consider hijacking this ITP for
the debian games team anyway :)


-- 
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Message #34 received at 319599-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Muammar El Khatib" <muammarelkhatib@gmail.com>

To: fieroch@web.de

Cc: 319599-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Status of darkplaces

Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 21:33:00 -0400

Hi,


What is the current status of darkplaces'  ITP? (This is just a qa
ping, I'm not interested in adopting it.)

Thanks

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Message #39 received at 319599@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jon Dowland <jon+bts@alcopop.org>

To: 319599@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: ITP hijack by games team

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:00:34 +0000

owner 319599 pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
thanks

Hello,

Well it's been over two years since the original ITP, so
I'm hijacking it on behalf of the debian games team.

I'll try to track quake1-related stuff at
<http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Quake>.


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Message #46 received at 319599@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: Jon Dowland <jon+bts@alcopop.org>, 319599@bugs.debian.org

Cc: debian-devel-games@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#319599: ITP: darkplaces - greatly improved engine for original quake1

Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:40:33 +0100

Hi!

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 22:00:34 +0000, Jon Dowland wrote:
> Well it's been over two years since the original ITP, so
> I'm hijacking it on behalf of the debian games team.
> 
> I'll try to track quake1-related stuff at
> <http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Quake>.

Actually, darkplaces is already in Debian, but repackaged as nexuiz. I
think it would make way more sense to detangle it from nexuiz and make
the latter use the former as just its engine instead, as darkplaces is
able to use several other data packs, including the original Quake ones.

The only problem is that some data packs conflict with others with
respect to their basedir, as some expect to use a different one. For
example all games using “data” as their basegame dir conflict with
each other, and OpenQuartz conflicts with the original Quake due to
both using “id1” as basegame dir and having no modgame dir. All this
can be seen in «common.c (gamemode_info)».

I think the best soltution to this would be to set fs_basedir from that
same struct, depending on the game to use.

This would allow packaging new games by just depending on darkplaces,
shipping the data, and a symlink with the proper game name to the
darkplaces binary, which would then automatically choose which game
values and directories to use.

regards,
guillem

Message #51 received at 319599@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>

To: 319599@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: darkplaces: changing back from ITP to RFP

Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:59:14 +0000

retitle 319599 RFP: darkplaces -- improved engine for original quake1
noowner 319599
thanks

Hi,

This is an automatic email to change the status of darkplaces back from ITP
(Intent to Package) to RFP (Request for Package), because this bug hasn't seen
any activity during the last 6 months.

If you are still interested in adopting darkplaces, please send a mail to
<control@bugs.debian.org> with:

 retitle 319599 ITP: darkplaces -- improved engine for original quake1
 owner 319599 !
 thanks

However, it is not recommended to keep ITP for a long time without acting on
the package, as it might cause other prospective maintainers to refrain from
packaging that software. It is also a good idea to document your progress on
this ITP from time to time, by mailing <319599@bugs.debian.org>.

Thank you for your interest in Debian,
-- 
Lucas, for the QA team <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>

Message #60 received at 319599@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>

To: 319599@bugs.debian.org

Cc: debian-devel-games@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#319599: ITP: darkplaces - greatly improved engine for original quake1

Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 21:58:16 +0100

owner 319599 !
thanks

On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 at 21:40:33 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Actually, darkplaces is already in Debian, but repackaged as nexuiz. I
> think it would make way more sense to detangle it from nexuiz and make
> the latter use the former as just its engine instead, as darkplaces is
> able to use several other data packs, including the original Quake ones.

Nexuiz is (by now) a pretty old version of DarkPlaces, its copyright
file doesn't really live up to current best-practice, and it deals with a
lot of its optional dependencies in rather a strange way: they're dlopen()'d,
without any systematic compatibility check.

I've brought up a more modern version of DarkPlaces as an independent
package, with a more comprehensive copyright file and patches to use normal
dynamic linking:

    http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-games/darkplaces.git

This also provides the /usr/lib/quake/quake-engine alternative and the
corresponding quake-engine virtual package.

> I think the best soltution to this would be to set fs_basedir from that
> same struct, depending on the game to use.

For the moment I've left the upstream basedir handling alone, because that's
how all of the Quake engine "ports" (forks) have always worked, as far as I
can see.

> This would allow packaging new games by just depending on darkplaces,
> shipping the data, and a symlink with the proper game name to the
> darkplaces binary, which would then automatically choose which game
> values and directories to use.

One disadvantage of that sort of thing is that we'd have to hard-code every
supported game's basedir into DarkPlaces, in advance.

I think shipping a small shell script in the game "metapackage" is fine; we
already have to ship a .desktop file and an icon somewhere, and putting those
in the packages generated by game-data-packager is somewhat undesirable (it's
harder to get them updated).

    S

Message #67 received at 319599@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>

To: 319599@bugs.debian.org

Cc: debian-devel-games@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#319599: ITP: darkplaces - greatly improved engine for original quake1

Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:41:30 +0100

On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 at 21:58:16 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> I've brought up a more modern version of DarkPlaces as an independent
> package, with a more comprehensive copyright file and patches to use normal
> dynamic linking:
> 
>     http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-games/darkplaces.git

I've also added a darkplaces branch to the nexuiz package's git repository.
This replaces the contents of the nexuiz package with a minimal tarball
containing just the icon and COPYING; the Debian directory contains wrapper
scripts which use the separately-packaged DarkPlaces engine.

    S

Message #74 received at 319599-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>

To: 319599-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#319599: fixed in darkplaces 0~20110628+svn11231-1

Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 07:47:11 +0000

Source: darkplaces
Source-Version: 0~20110628+svn11231-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
darkplaces, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

darkplaces-dbg_0~20110628+svn11231-1_amd64.deb
  to main/d/darkplaces/darkplaces-dbg_0~20110628+svn11231-1_amd64.deb
darkplaces-server_0~20110628+svn11231-1_amd64.deb
  to main/d/darkplaces/darkplaces-server_0~20110628+svn11231-1_amd64.deb
darkplaces_0~20110628+svn11231-1.debian.tar.gz
  to main/d/darkplaces/darkplaces_0~20110628+svn11231-1.debian.tar.gz
darkplaces_0~20110628+svn11231-1.dsc
  to main/d/darkplaces/darkplaces_0~20110628+svn11231-1.dsc
darkplaces_0~20110628+svn11231-1_amd64.deb
  to main/d/darkplaces/darkplaces_0~20110628+svn11231-1_amd64.deb
darkplaces_0~20110628+svn11231.orig.tar.gz
  to main/d/darkplaces/darkplaces_0~20110628+svn11231.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 319599@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> (supplier of updated darkplaces package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:36:05 +0100
Source: darkplaces
Binary: darkplaces darkplaces-server darkplaces-dbg
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 0~20110628+svn11231-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Description: 
 darkplaces - Game engine for Quake and similar 3D first person shooter games
 darkplaces-dbg - debug symbols for the DarkPlaces game engine
 darkplaces-server - Standalone server for Quake-based games
Closes: 319599
Changes: 
 darkplaces (0~20110628+svn11231-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Initial release to Debian under this name (Closes: #319599)
   * Initial Debian patchset:
     - link against libjpeg, zlib, libvorbis, modplug, libode, libtheora,
       libogg, libpng, curl, freetype2 "properly" instead of loading them
       with dlopen, to have better dependency information; use their headers,
       instead of inlining a simplified version
     - disable loading d0_blind_id, d0_rijndael, OffscreenGecko libraries,
       rather than dlopening a potentially-incompatible version
     - fix some typos picked up by Lintian
     - import a patch from the nexuiz package (which is actually an old
       copy of DarkPlaces) to compile on kFreeBSD
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