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  • Bug#783817: game-data-packager: consider new pseudo-Section for generat

    From Fabian Greffrath@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 27 12:50:01 2025
    Am 2025-05-24 22:09, schrieb Alexandre Detiste:
    A "local/" section guaranteed to never exist for official package
    would do the trick.
    and then APT would need to be teached about it;
    and it would not be games specific at all.

    This sounds like a very good idea for the next release cycle.

    - Fabian

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  • From Simon McVittie@21:1/5 to Fabian Greffrath on Tue May 27 13:20:02 2025
    On Tue, 27 May 2025 at 12:40:10 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
    Am 2025-05-24 22:09, schrieb Alexandre Detiste:
    A "local/" section guaranteed to never exist for official package
    would do the trick.
    and then APT would need to be teached about it;
    and it would not be games specific at all.

    This sounds like a very good idea for the next release cycle.

    game-data-packager already generates .deb files with
    "Section: local/games"[1], so this isn't really an actionable request
    for g-d-p any more: it's apt that would need to be taught about this pseudo-Section (or perhaps more like a pseudo-archive-area).

    play.it could also benefit from this.

    Outside the games team, libdvdcss (generated by libdvd-pkg) could
    usefully be in local/libs and local/libdevel.

    smcv

    [1] except for a few shareware, demo, addon or otherwise redistributable
    packages, which are currently emitted as non-free/games, although
    that does mean they would be eligible for removal as "obsolete"

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  • From Antoine Le Gonidec@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 27 19:30:01 2025
    Le Tue, May 27, 2025 at 12:11:42PM +0100, Simon McVittie a écrit :
    game-data-packager already generates .deb files with
    "Section: local/games"[1], so this isn't really an actionable request
    for g-d-p any more: it's apt that would need to be taught about this pseudo-Section (or perhaps more like a pseudo-archive-area).

    play.it could also benefit from this.

    I would be willing to adopt this same convention with ./play.it. I can
    change that in the next upstream feature release, that I plan to prepare sometime soon after Trixie release.

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