Re: Proposal for inclusion of deb file

Markus Koschany <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Dec 2021 20:40:21 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.games
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi Michele,

Am Donnerstag, dem 23.12.2021 um 14:42 +0100 schrieb Michele Alessandrini:
> Hi, I recently made a porting of the game ksokoban in order to use Qt 
> only. Ksokoban is a great puzzle game for KDE, but it's not being 
> packaged anymore in recent years, maybe to problems with KDE versions. 
> So I patched it to use Qt only, in order to give it new life. My release 
> is here:
> https://github.com/malessandrini/ksokoban-qt
> I also produced a deb package (in the Releases section), although it's 
> my first deb.
> Would it be possible to have it included in Debian? I'm sorry because 
> I'm not expert in the procedure of Debian packaging, maybe someone could 
> review it and evaluate if it complies with the standards?
> 
> Thank you for your attention
> Michele Alessandrini


Thanks for working on free software games. This topic regularly comes up on
various mailing lists. In general it is possible to include ksokoban-qt in
Debian, provided it is truly free. It is difficult though to find someone who
wants to package and maintain a random piece of software. If you have prepared
a Debian package already, then I would rather suggest you go all the way and
upload it to mentors.debian.org and let others review your work there. [1]
Otherwise you could also file a so called RFP (request for packaging) bug
report. [2] Sometimes someone else decides to work on it then but if you want
to get more experience in Debian packaging, then I highly recommend to go the
Debian mentors route. 

Regards,

Markus


[1] https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/RFP

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