Re: foobillard package

[Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be>]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 03:33:02PM +0300, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> Hello Frank,
> 
> > Since I'd like to join the pkg-games group and integrate foobillard
> > packaging there, I thought it might be a good idea to provide some
> > information about the foobilard package here.
> 
> Good :-)
> 
> > The new package I am working on has more modifications, and closes most
> > of the wishlist bugs. Since these are non-bugfix modifications to
> > upstream code, I decided to use dpatch to manage these.
> 
> As a team we decided[0] that quilt is better for such things as
> extensive changes (I understood that is the case here). We would
> appreciate if you used quilt instead. TIA.

No problem.  I just checked the current (dpatch-using) version in,
but I can change it. I'll have a look at quilt later today, so you
can expect a new commit sometime soon.

> > I would appreciate any comments on the current packaging.
> 
> Personally, I don't have time to review this, could someone take a look
> at it?

It would probably be better to wait with that until I have made the
quilt transition.

Thanks

Frank

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