Mame: Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
This page serves as the home page of the Mame package in Debian.
Status of the Package
Right now the package is waiting the ftp master approval in the NEW queue
Getting the packaging Code
The developement of the package is done on alioth, inside the pkg-games group. To participate in the packaging work, create an account on alioth, and present yourself on the debian-devel-game mailinst list ( see Games/VCS )
You can check out the code
( read only ) git clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-games/mame.git
( read write ) git clone git+ssh://<username>@git.debian.org/git/pkg-games/mame.git
TODO
Feel free to pickup any of these, just send a mail to mamedeb at googlegroups well it's a dot com, when you start working on something
Fix dpkg-shlibdeps warnings with the --as-needed ld flag, it is explained in http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml
Current status is:
manu@leonard:~$ ldd /usr/games/mame | wc -l 59
- Check if front ends gmameui and kamefu are working with mame / xmame
- Look about packaging Gnome Video Arcade which looks like the sanest of the plethora of Mame front ends
- Remove Windows.txt from mame -help and package
- Notify Ubuntu about our package
- Upload a source package to mentors
Remove useless mame-tools binaries: http://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=6493&Number=66395#Post66395
done
- no done: Add screenshot from mame with Galeco Rally or Mame initial start screen ( screenshots.debian.net refuse screenshots from non-free packages )
- Solve broken upgrade from xmame-x with apt-get
- Document what has changed since xmame-x package version 0.106
- Update VCS address to alioth in control file
Notify upstream about typo ( lintian -I -i warning )cf http://www.mametesters.org/view.php?id=4227
- nodone: Test Mame in Xephyr: useless, as Mame has a -window option to start in non-full screen mode