On Mon, Oct 26, 2020, at 12:16 PM, Tim Flink wrote:
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> There is a maintained upstream for bsd-games [1] that has effectively
> forked the old codebase and trimmed out some of the bits which are not
> quite games including wtf (the readme says "outdated acronym lookup. We
> have Google now."). However, the fedora package doesn't appear to built
> from the new upstream, still using 2.17 as a base which still has wtf
> instead of the new upstream's 3.x.
wtf, why isn't it updated?
I am not sure if there is a missing :) to say if this was a joke on the fact that the bsd-games isn't updated to the latest and would then lose wtf.. or if it is a serious question. For the serious answer...
I am guessing the lack of updates has to do with the history of bsd-games not being 'solid'. I believe the 'upstream' is one of several forks of the original code which used to be on metalab from times long ago. Different distributions have used different versions at different times so it isn't always clear which one is the 'real' bsd-games. Some of the forks have made large changes to ui and game layout and some of them had code which may or may not be really BSD code. Either one of those can cause either screams of outrage.