SDL packaging team

Infrastructure

Website: http://something.debian.org
Alioth Project: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-sdl
Upstream website: http://www.libsdl.org/
Documentation: point to additional documentation if any

Interacting with the team

Read the FAQ first: FAQ replace that link if you already have a FAQ somewhere else
Email contact: <pkg-sdl-maintainers AT lists DOT alioth DOT debian DOT org>
Request tracker: http://somewhere
Public IRC channel: #debian-sdl on irc.debian.org (OFTC)

Joining the team

Create an account on http://alioth.debian.org
Request to join the team on http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-sdl
Please, send a mail to the address mentioned above to present yourself and tell us what
- activity you wish to do within the team

Usual roles

DominiqueDumont (IRC nick dod or dodathome) is admin, will gladly welcome new members and aim to review packages of said new members
Sam Hocevar (IRC nick sam) is admin, currently working on SDL 1.3
Miriam Ruiz will review packages
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo (mafm) and Felix Geyer (debfx) are maintaining SDL packages.

Task description

Packaging SDL libraries.

SDL games are usually packaged by debian-games team.

Get involved

Help me update this page
Adopt a SDL package

Packaging with git

There's no document dedicated for SDL team, yet. The best way is to read git doc from perl team, forget about dh-make-perl in there and think "sdl" when you read "perl".

Set up mr

mr tool let your clone all sdl git repositories at once.

To configure mr, you need 2 configuration files:

$ cat ~/.mrconfig
[/path/to/your/sdl-stuff/git]
chain = true
checkout = git clone ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-sdl/meta.git git

$ cat ~/.mrtrust
/path/to/your/sdl-stuff/git/.mrconfig

To retrieve all repos, do:

$ cd /path/to/your/sdl-stuff/
$ mr up # retrieve meta repo in git
$ mr up # retrieve all sdl packages

Note that the first mr up will fail if an empty git directory exists.

Current situation

Team

Team activity snapshot: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-sdl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
Note: new sdlperl is available in experimental as libsdl-perl:
- http://packages.qa.debian.org/libs/libsdl-perl.html
SDL team now use git: look for sdl in http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/
Thanks to mafm and debfx, the SDL packages maintained by the team are now up-to-date.
Some SDL packages are maintained outside of SDL team. Their current maintainer are welcome to join the team.

Old stuff

old version of SDL packages are available in SVN
SVN repo does not show up in alioth viewvc. don't know why

On-going tasks

$/!\$ Updated 2012-01-19

Sam is working on libsdl1.3
Dod is working on updating libsdl-perl:
- New version is available in experimental
- Cannot be uploaded in unstable until its dependencies are fixed (upstream is working on it):
  - frozen-bubble: ready upstream as version 2.2.1-beta1
  - dizzy: ready to be packaged once libsdl-perl is available
  - pangzero: original upstream author is unresponsive. perl-sdl upstream is working on it.
- New frozen-bubble could be uploaded as sdl-mixer1.2 is up-to-date

TODO list

At least:

Triage bugs

Notes

Migrating repo from svn to git (might be useful) : http://jausoft.com/blog/2009/07/08/svn-to-git-migration-1/

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