Dear all, please be advised that I am orphaning mame-data-extras. This package has become too much of a burden to maintain with monthly mame releases one one hand and various files included in it lagging behind the mame releases on the other. Not to mention that it was in violation of code-vs-content guideline. I will be putting a dead.package in devel branch in about a week from now.

Julian

W dniu 07.10.2015 o 17:59, Sérgio Basto pisze: > On Qua, 2015-10-07 at 07:50 +0200, Julian Sikorski wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > please be advised that I am orphaning mame-data-extras. This > > package has > > become too much of a burden to maintain with monthly mame > > releases one > > one hand and various files included in it lagging behind the mame > > releases on the other. Not to mention that it was in violation of > > code-vs-content guideline. > > I will be putting a dead.package in devel branch in about a week > > from now. > > GMAMEUI > Requires: mame-data-extras > # to load /usr/share/mame/Catver.ini and /usr/share/mame/cheat.7z > these files will disappear ? Yes, they will no longer be packaged. I doubt they are required for the frontend to function, they rather "improve the experience". If users want them they can download them themselves: - http://cheat.retrogames.com/ for cheat.7z (at 0.163 atm) - http://www.progettoemma.net/?catlist for catver.ini (at 0.161 atm) - http://www.progettosnaps.net/renameset/ for alternative catver.ini These two files perfectly exemplify the pain in supporting them as a package: they have alternative upstreams and are not updated every time new mame comes out. The new rapid release schedule has only made the issue worse.

> > I have not been able to maintain GMAMEUI, since changes in mame , > I'd > like follow gnome-video-arcade [1] >   > I'm trying maintain GMAMEUI, because have feature that others don't > have , maybe export that features to gnome-video-arcade ... > > > [1] > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-video-arcade/ > > > Julian > > Thanks, >