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The purpose of the Debian Games Team is to coordinate, share common problems and solutions and even in some cases be able to maintain games collaboratively. There is a [http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-games/ project in Alioth] created for that, and also a [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-devel mailing list] for coordination The purpose of the Debian Games Team is to coordinate, share common problems and solutions and even in some cases be able to maintain games collaboratively. There is a [http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-games/ project in Alioth] created for that, and also a [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-devel mailing list] for coordination.
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== Developer's resources ==

 * In ["Games/SVN"] is a quick reference for working with the pkg-games subversion repository
 * In ["ProspectiveGamesInDebian"] we maintain a list of games that seem suitable for packaging
 * In ["QualityGamesUnsuitableForDebian"] we list games that we cannot package for Debian main currently.
== Games Package ==

 * ["Games/Boson"]
 * ["Games/freedoom"]
 * ["Games/Komi"]
 * ["Games/Late"]
 * ["Games/lincity-ng"]
 * ["Games/rrootage"]
 * ["Games/ppracer"]
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The purpose of the Debian Games Team is to coordinate, share common problems and solutions and even in some cases be able to maintain games collaboratively. There is a [http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-games/ project in Alioth] created for that, and also a [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-devel mailing list] for coordination.

The main goals of the project are:

  • Maintaining games collaboratively, as they tend to share many points in common.
  • "Scale economy" benefits: maintaining more packages, quicker an with less effort.
  • Open a way towards a larger involvement in Debian project to people maintaining just one or few games.
  • Quick-fixing of security issues common to games.
  • Discussion of problems and facts relative to game packaging.
  • Discussion of how to DFSG might be interpreted regarding multimedia contents and artwork in games.
  • Identify important games that are not packaged yet and package them.
  • Identify games that we were only maintainig out of inertia, and consider dropping them
  • Make it easier for users to know the games available in Debian, maybe with some game selector interface, a web page, screenshots or whatever.
  • Collaborative maintenance of common infrastructure libs, like SDL.
  • Collaborative initial packaging of huge new games, like GPLed Nexuiz first-person shooter.
  • Handling licensing problems relative to games. Maybe even replacing non-free bits with DFSG-free content.

Developer's resources

  • In ["Games/SVN"] is a quick reference for working with the pkg-games subversion repository

  • In ["?ProspectiveGamesInDebian"] we maintain a list of games that seem suitable for packaging

  • In ["?QualityGamesUnsuitableForDebian"] we list games that we cannot package for Debian main currently.

Games Package

  • ["Games/Boson"]
  • ["Games/freedoom"]
  • ["Games/Komi"]
  • ["Games/Late"]
  • ["Games/lincity-ng"]
  • ["Games/rrootage"]
  • ["Games/ppracer"]

CategoryDeveloper