Hello, I'm in the process of packaging the game Red Eclipse[0] for Fedora (bug #800930[1]), but in order for Red Eclipse to not bundle the Enet lib, it needs to be updated from 1.2 to 1.3 in Fedora (bug #739313 [2]). There seems to currently be only one package depending on enet/enet-devel in Fedora, which is egoboo, which does FTBFS on an updated Enet (bug #799778[3]).
Updating the packaging for Enet to 1.3 seems to be trivial (bump version, re-download, changelog), and I have created a patch for Egoboo[3] which fixes the FTBFS and allows *launching*. I have not tested *running* the game with the patch applied (would be great if someone with graphics acceleration in Fedora could test ;).
The current maintainer of both Egoboo and Enet seems busy and has not had time to update Enet since a request[2] was filed in Sep 2011. And did, at least earlier, say that it would be fine if another proven packager took care of it.
Also worth noting is that Egoboo is outdated in Fedora 2.7.5 vs upstream 2.8.1, however this update may introduce (if it's not already there) a bad movement key bug[5], making it pretty much unplayable on Linux, and I don't think there's a proper beta release for GNU/Linux beyond this..
I'd like to know how I'd best go about fixing Enet so that I may be able to get Red Eclipse into Fedora, are there any proven packagers around that may be willing to update Enet and add this patch to Egoboo?
[0] http://redeclipse.net/ [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800930 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739313 [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799778 [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=662258 [5] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=662300 https://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/egoboo/view.php?id=74
Thanks.
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 15:22:11 +0100, Martin Erik Werner martinerikwerner@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I'm in the process of packaging the game Red Eclipse[0] for Fedora (bug #800930[1]), but in order for Red Eclipse to not bundle the Enet lib, it needs to be updated from 1.2 to 1.3 in Fedora (bug #739313 [2]). There seems to currently be only one package depending on enet/enet-devel in Fedora, which is egoboo, which does FTBFS on an updated Enet (bug #799778[3]).
Updating the packaging for Enet to 1.3 seems to be trivial (bump version, re-download, changelog), and I have created a patch for Egoboo[3] which fixes the FTBFS and allows *launching*. I have not tested *running* the game with the patch applied (would be great if someone with graphics acceleration in Fedora could test ;).
The current maintainer of both Egoboo and Enet seems busy and has not had time to update Enet since a request[2] was filed in Sep 2011. And did, at least earlier, say that it would be fine if another proven packager took care of it.
Also worth noting is that Egoboo is outdated in Fedora 2.7.5 vs upstream 2.8.1, however this update may introduce (if it's not already there) a bad movement key bug[5], making it pretty much unplayable on Linux, and I don't think there's a proper beta release for GNU/Linux beyond this..
I'd like to know how I'd best go about fixing Enet so that I may be able to get Red Eclipse into Fedora, are there any proven packagers around that may be willing to update Enet and add this patch to Egoboo?
Provenpackagers shouldn't just jump in to doing version updates without at least trying to check in with the packager.
As it turns out I was looking at doing the same thing as one of the first steps to clearing the way for 0 A.D. yesterday. I asked to be a co-maintainer for egoboo, egoboo-data and enet with the express purpose of update them to 2.8.1 and 1.3.3. I have been granted access to egoboo and am still waiting to hear from the owner of enet.
Once I have access it will probably take about a week depending on when I have free time to do this.
Thanks for the heads up about the bug. I hadn't noticed that. I did notice there is some post 2.8.1 work, but not a release yet. It may be I can cherry pick a fix out of that work.
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 15:22:11 +0100, Martin Erik Werner martinerikwerner@gmail.com wrote:
The current maintainer of both Egoboo and Enet seems busy and has not had time to update Enet since a request[2] was filed in Sep 2011. And did, at least earlier, say that it would be fine if another proven packager took care of it.
I missed that. With that info I think I can go ahead and start working on this before waiting for co-maintainer status. I'm a proven packager so I have access to do updates while my request is pending.
Thanks again for doing the detailed background research on this.
Expect some movement in f17 and f18 by the end of next weekend. (I'll do at least some work before then, but probably just seeing the source files uploaded into the lookaside cache will be visible, while I do some work locally.)
I'll want to be careful about pushing this stuff to f15 and f16. Enet 1.3 is supposedly protocol compatible with 1.2 and I think would be OK to backport. My main concern is not breaking egoboo.
Hi, I think I'm getting towards the final stages of review of my Red Eclipse package[0], and from what I can tell now is the time to find a sponsor... right?
Hence I'm wondering if anyone from the games team would you perchance be able to sponsor me for the Red Eclipse package?
Would you mind if I asked you, Bruno Wolff III, in particular, since I've been involved with some of your work in the process? :D
[0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800930
(Please CC me, I'm not subscribed to the list.)
Regards.
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 17:43:02 +0100, Martin Erik Werner martinerikwerner@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I think I'm getting towards the final stages of review of my Red Eclipse package[0], and from what I can tell now is the time to find a sponsor... right?
Hence I'm wondering if anyone from the games team would you perchance be able to sponsor me for the Red Eclipse package?
Would you mind if I asked you, Bruno Wolff III, in particular, since I've been involved with some of your work in the process? :D
I'm not a sponsor. I probably won't be one soon, since you really need to be good at reviews to do that and I don't get much practice with that. I am more of a fixer upper in what I do for packaging. I find that more fun and with my time being pretty full, I am unlikely to make time to do enough reviews to be considered as a sponsor for the foreseable future.
There are however, a few sponsors with a keen interest in getting games packaged for Fedora.
I will state that from the interactions with Martin I have had over the last week, is that he appears to be very knowlegable about licensing, catches important details and is able to find information from upstreams readily.
On 03/16/2012 04:14 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 17:43:02 +0100, Martin Erik Werner martinerikwerner@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I think I'm getting towards the final stages of review of my Red Eclipse package[0], and from what I can tell now is the time to find a sponsor... right?
Hence I'm wondering if anyone from the games team would you perchance be able to sponsor me for the Red Eclipse package?
Would you mind if I asked you, Bruno Wolff III, in particular, since I've been involved with some of your work in the process? :D
I'm not a sponsor. I probably won't be one soon, since you really need to be good at reviews to do that and I don't get much practice with that. I am more of a fixer upper in what I do for packaging. I find that more fun and with my time being pretty full, I am unlikely to make time to do enough reviews to be considered as a sponsor for the foreseable future.
There are however, a few sponsors with a keen interest in getting games packaged for Fedora.
I will state that from the interactions with Martin I have had over the last week, is that he appears to be very knowlegable about licensing, catches important details and is able to find information from upstreams readily.
If Bruno vouches for Martin, I'd be happy to sponsor him.
~tom
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 16:37:14 -0400, Tom Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com wrote:
If Bruno vouches for Martin, I'd be happy to sponsor him.
Based on what I have seen so far I think he is a good packager (probably better than I am). There will be details that are different between Fedora and Debian to pick up, but I don't think that will be a problem.
On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 16:05 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 16:37:14 -0400, Tom Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com wrote:
If Bruno vouches for Martin, I'd be happy to sponsor him.
Thanks! :D Is there anything more I should be doing as part of the sponsorship process at this point?
Based on what I have seen so far I think he is a good packager (probably better than I am). There will be details that are different between Fedora and Debian to pick up, but I don't think that will be a problem.
That's high praise, thank you :)
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