Mame: Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
This is a developer help page for the mame/mess package. See Mame and Mess for the user Readme.
Resources
Build logs: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=mame&suite=sid
Git Web Interface: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-games/mame.git;a=summary
Getting the packaging code
The development 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 mailing list (see Games/VCS)
Building a package
For Mame and Mess >= 0.144
Check out the code
#read only git clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-games/mame.git
#read write git clone git+ssh://kdev-guest@git.debian.org/git/pkg-games/mame.git
Replace here kdev-guest with your Alioth username.
Build a package
# get source code
cd mame
./debian/rules get-orig-source
# get mame version
MAME_VERSION=$(dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -ne 's/^Version: \(.*\)-.*/\1/p')
cd ..
# untar
ln -s mame mame-${MAME_VERSION}
tar hxaf mame_${MAME_VERSION}.orig.tar.xz
tar hxaf mame_${MAME_VERSION}.orig-nplayers.tar.xz -C mame-${MAME_VERSION}
cd mame-${MAME_VERSION}
# for the package maintainer
dpkg-buildpackage -k"your_gpg_key_id"
# for you
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
Upgrade to new release
Increment changelog
dch --newversion 0.142-1 --distribution UNRELEASED "New upstream release"
Find new files
diff -qr mame-0.144/src mame-0.145/src | grep "Only in mame-0.144" LANG=C; diff -qr mame-0.144/src mame-0.145/src | grep "Only in mame-0.145"
done
- no done: Add screenshot from mame with Galeco Rally or Mame initial start screen (screenshots.debian.net refuse screenshots from non-free packages)
- Solve broken upgrade from xmame-x with apt-get
- Document what has changed since xmame-x package version 0.106
- Update VCS address to alioth in control file
Notify upstream about typo (lintian -I -i warning)cf http://www.mametesters.org/view.php?id=4227. Upstream fixed it !
- nodone: Test Mame in Xephyr: useless, as Mame has a -window option to start in non-full screen mode
Remove useless mame-tools binaries: http://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=6493&Number=66395#Post66395
- Check if front ends gmameui and kamefu are working with mame / xmame : kamefu has been removed from the archive, and gmameui is broken cf bug report #610483
Fix dpkg-shlibdeps warnings with the --as-needed ld flag, it is explained in http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml
Current status is: manu@leonard:~$ ldd /usr/games/mame | wc -l 59 for mame-tools jumped down from 59 to 22
- Verify of created directories are properly removed when removing the package: OK
Look about packaging Gnome Video Arcade which looks like the sanest of the plethora of Mame front ends RFP BUG: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=617437
- Change maintainer to Debian Games Team, move Ludo to uploaders
- as of 22/03/2010 Mame FTBS from source because of gcc-4.5
make[2]: *** [obj/sdl/mame/libocore.a] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... gcc: error trying to exec 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-4.4': execvp: No such file or directory gcc: error trying to exec 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-4.4': execvp: No such file or directory
fixed in http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-games/mame.git;a=commitdiff;h=4a75e1a9ddf15eba63353b99d06c316eb9635735
- Remove Windows.txt from mame -help and package
- Notify Ubuntu about our package
- Upload a source package to mentors
- Post debian build logs to mame forums
- send screenshot of gnome video arcade to screenshots.debian.org