Re: Packaging SDL_perl 2.5*, and frozen-bubble for Debian Experimental

Hello folks,

I am the author of Pang Zero. I will see if I can release a new version 
"soon"; thanks for the heads up. I have another game based on SDL_perl 
called Vacuum Magic (http://apocalypse.rulez.org/vacuum), which is a lot 
more complex than Pang Zero and uses OpenGL. I'll try to port that one 
as well.

Best regards,
UPi.

Kartik Thakore wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I am the maintainer for SDL_perl (http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/ 
> <http://search.cpan.org/%7Ekthakore/>) and over the past few months we 
> have rewritten the SDL_perl API. We have lots of fixes and new 
> improvements.( http://www.cpantesters.org/show/SDL.html#SDL-2.511). 
> The new APi has more docs, and developers working on it. It is a 
> massive improvement and needs to be updated on Debian.
>
> In an attempt to release SDL_perl on Debian, we have also ported 
> frozen-bubble to the new API. 
> (http://github.com/kthakore/frozen-bubble) , Which is now a beta on 
> the official frozen bubble site 
> (http://www.frozen-bubble.org/downloads/).
>
> The only other package in Debian that depends on SDL_perl is pangzero. 
> We have started to port it too (http://github.com/kthakore/pangzero). 
> But because the project seems dead upstream 
> (https://sourceforge.net/projects/pangzero/) I am having a hard time 
> finding space in my schedule for it. We need help porting this. I will 
> be around to answer any questions for the folks. Also the #sdl channel 
> has many people who have help migrate frozen-bubble on there.
>
> Nevertheless this email is an attempt to get the process started to 
> get SDL_perl 2.5* onto Debian and Ubuntu  as we have many games we 
> want to release with the new API.
>
> Regards,
> Kartik Thakore
>