• Diff for "Games/Development"

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/rrootage"]
• ["Games/ppracer"]

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