Undeprecating libsidplay and fbg

Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Apr 8 21:04:36 UTC 2013


On 04/06/2013 10:54 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> fbg, review request:
> 949167 - Review Request: fbg - Falling Block Game
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949167
> 
> Rationale for undeprecating: I'm the original packager of fbg and handed
> it over to lower my package load, only to later found out it got orphaned
> (and I missed this), so now I want to get it back into Fedora, as this is
> still a nice and simple game.

I'm assuming you saw later why I deprecated it, there are legal issues
with the use of a sound trademark in that game, and the format for the
music file in question was... archaic. There is a sequel to fbg called
"fbg2", and I was able to resolve the music issue in that version.

~tom

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