debian-games (5) unstable; urgency=medium [ Andreas Tille ] * Build-Depends: Drop versioned constraint on blends-dev. [ Markus Koschany ] * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.6.2. * New games: - puzzle: chromono, explosive-c4, parolottero - console: chroma-curses, nbsdgames, tty-solitaire - platform: davegnukem - fps: dsda-doom, ktx, mvdsv, woof-doom - emulator: yuzu - tetris: ghextris - arcard: lbreakouthd - toys: pipes-sh * Removed games: (removed from Debian) - education: childsplay, gcompris - rpg: ember - puzzle: gnubik - emulator: higan - arcade: monster-masher - strategy: snowballz - c++-dev: libogre-1.9-dev * Update the blacklist -- Markus Koschany Sat, 06 May 2023 23:13:53 +0200 debian-games (4) unstable; urgency=medium * Update the blacklist * New games: - puzzle: chroma - console,toys: cbonsai * Removed games or tools: (removed from Debian) - adanaxisgpl - aajm - jmdlx - fretsonfire - kiki-the-nano-bot - jerry - ninja-ide - python3-pyqt4.qtopengl -- Markus Koschany Sun, 04 Jul 2021 08:50:03 +0200 debian-games (3.3) unstable; urgency=medium * arcade: Remove fofix from Suggests. * java-dev: Remove netbeans. Removed from Debian. * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.5.1. * Migrate to udd-mirror.debian.net. Thanks to Asheesh Laroia for the patch. (Closes: #976060, 980922) * New games: - rpg: gm-assistant - content-dev: goverlay - chess: gpsshogi - chess: gpsshogi-viewer - tetris: gtetrinet - strategy: ironseed - board: kgames - rpg: openmw - rpg: openmw-cs - arcade: pinball-table-gnu - arcade: pinball-table-hurd - puzzle: puzzle-jigsaw - puzzle: sudoku-solver - console: trader * Update the blacklist and add braillefont, nethack-qt, ironseed-data, ktuberling-data, minigalaxy, because it is not a game and it is only able to download games from G.O.G. -- Markus Koschany Fri, 19 Feb 2021 01:29:47 +0100 debian-games (3.2) unstable; urgency=medium * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.5.0. * Switch to debhelper-compat = 13. * New games or engines: - puzzle,console: 2048 - adventure: dmagnetic - chess: fairy-stockfish - toys: macopix - console,typing: pacvim - adventure: sdlfrotz - arcade: vonsh * Removed games: (removed from Debian) - puzzle: 4digits - card: dds - platform: ffrenzy - puzzle: freevial - chess: gameclock - board: londonlaw - toys: macopix-gtk2 - mud: mudlet - education, puzzle: pysycache - card: python-pydds - strategy: slingshot - board: uligo - arcade: xpilot-ng -- Markus Koschany Tue, 13 Oct 2020 11:28:42 +0200 debian-games (3.1) unstable; urgency=medium * Drop python2-dev package because Python 2 will be removed from Debian. (Closes: #945632) * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.4.1. * Removed games: (Removed from Debian) - arcade/shootemup: balder2d - arcade: bubbros - arcade/shootemup: defendguin - puzzle/board: gnudoq - board: gpsshogi - card: holdingnuts - puzzle: magicor - card: pybridge - puzzle: pynagram - board: pyscrabble - typing: speedpad - board: tictactoe-ng - puzzle: xword - console: zivot * New games or engines: - chess: suggest crazywa - adventure: add glulxe - platform/arcade: add pekka-kana-2 - simulation: suggest pmars - console/tetris: add termtris - toys: add tfortune and tfortunes - toys: add xsnow -- Markus Koschany Tue, 17 Dec 2019 02:08:26 +0100 debian-games (3) unstable; urgency=medium * Suggest Netbeans, cuyo and holdingnuts because they will not be part of Debian 10 "Buster". -- Markus Koschany Mon, 20 May 2019 00:01:59 +0200 debian-games (2.6) unstable; urgency=medium * games-tasks: Depend on ${misc:Depends} * board: Remove gmchess from board task too. * Remove eclipse related packages because the Eclipse IDE was removed from Debian. * Update the blacklist * New games: python3-dev: Suggest python3-minecraftpi. - puzzle: lix - chess: jerry - chess: fathom - chess: ethereal-chess - emulator: blastem * Switch to compat level 12. * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.3.0. -- Markus Koschany Sun, 10 Feb 2019 14:13:56 +0100 debian-games (2.5) unstable; urgency=medium * Add basic256 also to the programming task. * Add python3-fife to python3-dev. Remove python2-fife. * Add vitetris to console and tetris tasks. * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.2.1. * New games: - rogue: boohu. - tetris: galois - toys: hollywood and wallstreet. - chess: Suggest leela-zero and liblizzie-java. - strategy: naev. * Removed games or libraries: (Removed from Debian) - attal - convert-pgn - eboard-extras-pack1 - eleeye - glee-dev - gmchess - mmpong-gl -- Markus Koschany Sat, 08 Dec 2018 19:53:24 +0100 debian-games (2.4) unstable; urgency=medium * Move basic256 to education task. * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.2.0. * Add hyperrogue to finest games. * Remove finest-light binary package. Nowadays modern computers should be capable of running all free software games in Debian without restrictions. * New games: - fps: Suggested: crispy-doom - rogue: cataclysm-dda-sdl - strategy: gigalomania - puzzle: pushover -- Markus Koschany Fri, 03 Aug 2018 19:40:20 +0200 debian-games (2.3) unstable; urgency=medium * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.1.4. * Update Vcs-fields. Git repository was moved to salsa.debian.org. * New games: - platform: ddnet. - racing: dustracing2d. - board: el-ixir. - console,shootemup: piu-piu. * Removed packages (removed from Debian): - ghextris, gtetrinet, gvrng, oolite. * Run make dist. -- Markus Koschany Sun, 15 Apr 2018 20:32:02 +0200 debian-games (2.2) unstable; urgency=medium * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.1.2. * Switch to compat level 11. * Demote gnome-video-arcade to Suggests because it is a GNOME specific frontend. * New games: - arcade: icebreaker - rogue: allure - adventure: Replace fizmo-ncursesw with fizmo-sdl2 and demote fizmo-ncursesw to Suggests. - toys: Suggest fortunate.app. - puzzle: jag. - finest: lugaru. - console: open-adventure. - strategy: planetblupi. * Removed packages: (removed from Debian) - pairs, linthesia, gnoemoe, openbve, fceu. * Update the blacklist: Add jag-data, lugaru-data, minetest-mod-character-creator, minetest-mod-quartz and planetblupi-common to blacklist. * tetris: Add quadrapassel and Suggest kblocks. Thanks to Jeremy Bicha for the report. (Closes: #885044) * Remove alienblaster from finest, finest-light task because we already recommend chromium-bsu. -- Markus Koschany Sun, 24 Dec 2017 15:14:40 +0100 debian-games (2.1) unstable; urgency=medium * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.0.1. * New packages: - arcade: mrboom - rogue: lambdahack - emulator: gnome-video-arcade (Closes: #869284) * Removed packages: (removed from Debian) - content-dev: aseprite - python2-dev,python3-dev: pida * Run make dist. -- Markus Koschany Thu, 17 Aug 2017 01:12:52 +0200 debian-games (2) unstable; urgency=medium * Removed packages: (removed from Debian) - card: cardstories. - puzzle: glotski. * Run make dist and update the debian control file. -- Markus Koschany Sun, 09 Apr 2017 17:00:27 +0200 debian-games (1.7) unstable; urgency=medium * Removed packages: (removed from Debian) - strategy: castle-combat. * Add minetest-mod-maidroid to blacklist because it is just a mod for minetest. * Run make dist. -- Markus Koschany Sat, 31 Dec 2016 21:43:52 +0100 debian-games (1.6) unstable; urgency=medium * New recommendations: - toys: bucklespring - board: gnudoq * Move csmash from arcade to simulation. * Add auto-generated games-all metapackage. * Add gearhead2-sdl and mednafen to blacklist because we already recommend another flavor of them. * Run make dist. -- Markus Koschany Sun, 27 Nov 2016 23:31:02 +0100 debian-games (1.5) unstable; urgency=medium * Switch to compat level 10. * New recommendations: - puzzle: cavepacker. - rpg: ember. - console: nudoku. - finest,platform: caveexpress. - sport: bygfoot. * New suggestions: - fps: ezquake. * Removed packages: (removed from Debian or other issues) - finest,finest-light,platform: smc. - programming, strategy: gnurobots. - arcade: icebreaker. - content-dev: krita. * finest, finest-light: Remove aisleriot. Two recommended card (solitaire) games are sufficient. * emulator: Replace mednafen with mednaffe. * finest: Replace angband with nethack-console. Nethack is better maintained and more popular. * c++-dev: Replace libphobos-4.9-dev with libphobos-dev. * java-dev: Recommend netbeans instead of eclipse. * copyright: Change contact address to Debian Games Team. * Update the blacklist. Minetest mods, data packages and libretro are not standalone games. * Add gnome-2048 to blacklist because it is GNOME specific. * emulator: Remove transitional mess package. * Update README.source and note that the auto-generated games-all package has to be removed until a config option for blends-dev exists. -- Markus Koschany Sun, 25 Sep 2016 21:14:51 +0200 debian-games (1.4) unstable; urgency=medium * New recommendations: - python2-dev: python-pygame-sdl2. - console: colossal-cave-adventure. - arcade: vor. - emulator: mgba-sdl, osmose-emulator, retroarch, mame and mess. - adventure: Suggest scummvm-tools. * Removed packages: (removed from Debian or other issues) - board,chess: yics. - chess: glchess. - card: jpoker. * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 3.9.8. * README.source: Explain how to change recommendations. * Update src/blacklist. Add werewolf because it is only a game engine. * finest, finest-light: Replace xboard with dreamchess. xboard is an excellent chess variant but I feel that dreamchess is better suited for casual gamers who might prefer more eye-candy. * finest, finest-light: Replace angrydd with blockattack. Blockattack is another tetris-like game. I think it is better suited for finest and finest-light because it also supports two-player games and it is actively developed. It will most likely support SDL2 soon. * Make games-finest available in Debian's installer by setting Install: true in tasks/finest. Thanks to Ole Streicher for the report. (Closes: #825182) -- Markus Koschany Sat, 04 Jun 2016 02:07:44 +0200 debian-games (1.3) unstable; urgency=medium * Team upload. * Change recommendation from libpng12-dev to libpng-dev. (Closes: #816117) -- Tobias Frost Mon, 28 Mar 2016 13:42:43 +0200 debian-games (1.2) unstable; urgency=medium * New recommendations: - content-dev: Switch from ardour3 to ardour package. - platform: asylum. - finest, strategy: ufoai. - adventure: Depend on renpy-thequestion instead of renpy. - adventure: zoom-player. - arcade: Switch from heroes-sdl to heroes. - platform: edgar. - strategy: endless-sky. * Removed packages: (removed from Debian or other issues) - finest, finest-light: triplea because it depends on obsolete commons-httpclient library. - finest, finest-light: boswars, since it has some flaws and upstream development is slow. - rpg: balazar. - arcade: balazarbrother. - strategy: freecraft. - programming, strategy: realtimebattle. - python2-dev: python-soya. - perl-dev: padre. * fps: Suggest eureka and deutex from now on. * Vcs-Git: Switch to https. * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 3.9.7. -- Markus Koschany Sun, 14 Feb 2016 14:20:48 +0100 debian-games (1.1) unstable; urgency=medium [ Andreas Tille ] * Added dependency data as created by blends-dev_gsoc to maintain future changelogs and package statistics. [ Markus Koschany ] * Vcs-Browser: Use https. * Improve package description of games-console to ensure that text console games are not confused with requiring a video game console for playing. Thanks to Takahide Nojima for the report. (Closes: #793573) * New recommendations: - emulator: cen64, gngb, dolphin-emu, mupen64plus-ui-console - toys: bambam and bb - education: granule - arcade: mrrescue and wizznic - python2-dev: python-renpy - fps: rbdoom3bfg - chess: shogivar, sjaakii and uci2wb - puzzle: wizznic - typing: speedpad * Removed packages: No longer in Debian. - chess: emacs-chess - perl-dev: libogre-perl - card: mathwar - puzzle: mathwar - typing: lletters - c++-dev: libois-dev. No longer developed. - puzzle: scribble - mud: pennmush * Only suggest texlive-games. * simulation: Suggest bsdgames instead of recommending them. * Depend on freeciv metapackage instead of freeciv-client-gtk. * Add python helper scripts to source package. Those helper scripts are useful for getting a quick overview about - what games (binary packages) do exist in Debian? - what games are already listed in our task files? - what games are new? * Add README.Debian file. -- Markus Koschany Mon, 02 Nov 2015 19:45:03 +0100 debian-games (1) unstable; urgency=medium * Update debian/control and synchronize metapackages with current available packages in testing. * c++-dev: - Recommend libopenscenegraph-dev. - Replace libjpeg8-dev with libjpeg-dev. - Drop crystalspace and libcrystalspace-dev because they are RC buggy. * chess: - Recommend chessx. * card: - Only suggest jpoker because it depends on apache2 which is an undesired dependency. -- Markus Koschany Mon, 30 Mar 2015 18:06:50 +0200 debian-games (0.11) unstable; urgency=medium * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 3.9.6. * Update Vcs-Browser field to new canonical address. * Sort all task files alphabetically. * Update README.source. Mention task file ordering. * Fix lintian warning in c++-dev (line was too long). * Shorten the short description of content-dev. * perl-dev: Suggest pangzero. * perl-dev: Suggest padre as an IDE for Perl. * adventure: Remove freesci. It is going to be removed from Debian. * c++-dev: Recommend libpng12-dev and libtiff5-dev instead of their virtual packages. * card: Suggest gnome-games and kdegames. * Add powermanga to finest and finest-light task. * Rename flare to flare-game because the package was renamed. * Add tecnoballz to finest and finest-light task. * Remove xgalaga from finest and finest-light task. A couple of great shoot' em up games are already recommended and the task provides similar alternatives like powermanga or open-invaders. * Add xmoto to racing task. * Add solarwolf to finest and finest-light task. * Add python-sdl2 to python2-dev. * Add python3-sdl2 to python3-dev. * Add tiled, a general purpose tile map editor, to content-dev. * emulator: Suggest wine. * content-dev: Replace ardour with ardour3. -- Markus Koschany Thu, 23 Oct 2014 23:01:27 +0200 debian-games (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium [ Markus Koschany ] * Add shootemup task. Promote Debian's plethora of shmup games. * Add minesweeper task. Thanks to Axel Beckert for the suggestion. (Closes: #757029) * Add programming task to increase the visibility of educational programming games. * Add toys task and recommend desktop toys and funny console software. * Add education task to promote educational software and games for children. * Add content-dev task with a selection of suitable tools and packages for developing and editing game content like graphics, audio and video material. Thanks to Paul Wise for the suggestions. * Add developer tasks to facilitate the development of games in different programming languages: - Add java-dev task. - Add python2-dev task. - Add python3-dev task. - Add c++-dev task. - Add perl-dev task. * Add dangen to arcade task. * Add ricochet to board task. Thanks to Axel Beckert for the report (Closes: #757047) * Add freecraft to strategy task. * Rename xblast to xblast-tnt. The former one is a transitional package. * Update games-fps task. Remove engines which are pulled in by already recommended games. - cube2 - prboom-plus - darkplaces - ioquake3 Suggest quakespasm since game data has not been packaged yet. Suggest doomsday since prboom-plus is the preferred engine for freedoom. Thanks to Fabian Greffrath for the report. (Closes: #757094) * Add adanaxisgpl to arcade task. * Add armagetronad and gltron to racing task. * Add 2048-qt to puzzle task. * Add aajm to console task. * Add balazarbrothers to arcade task. * Suggest cardstories in card task. * Add cavezofphear to console task. * Improve package description for games-fps. * Add crrcsim to simulation task. * Suggest efp in emulator task. * Suggest fceu and add fceux to emulator task. * Add ffrenzy to platform task. * Add flare to rpg task. Thanks to Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo for the report. (Closes: #757403) * Suggest fofix in arcade task. * Suggest kdegames and gnome-games in arcade, board, chess and puzzle task. * Add freealchemist to puzzle and tetris tasks. * Suggest gbrainy in puzzle task. * Add gpsshogi to board task. * Add hachu to board and chess task. * Add instead to adventure task. * Add jmdlx to arcade task. * Add lightsoff to puzzle task. * mud and rpg task: Suggest minetest. Minetest is not a real mud game but it shares a few similarities. * simulation task: Suggest linthesia. * Add miceamaze to puzzle task. * Suggest netrek-client-cow in arcade, simulation and strategy tasks. * Add openbve to simulation. * Add pax-britannica to strategy task. * Add pegsolitaire to board task. * Add randtype to typing task. * Suggest scribble in puzzle task. * Add starfighter to arcade. * Add wordwarvi to arcade. * Add xmahjongg to board task. * Add xracer to racing. * Add xword to puzzle task. * card task: Suggest yahtzeesharp. * Add zivot to console task. * Recommend oolite in simulation and strategy tasks. * Remove xshisen from finest and finest-light task. * Add flare to finest task. * Add mirrormagic to arcade task. * Add abe to platform task. * Remove openclonk from finest-light. It requires a hardware accelerated video card. * Suggest efp in arcade task. * Suggest colobot in strategy task. * Puzzle task: Recommend gbrainy. * Add README.source file. * Add fs-uae-arcade and hatari to emulator task. * Suggest lightspeed in simulation task. * Add virtualjaguar to emulator task. * Add gnurobots to programming task. [ Tobias Hansen ] * Add libalure-dev to c++-dev task. -- Markus Koschany Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:46:54 +0200 debian-games (0.9) unstable; urgency=medium * Initial release. -- Markus Koschany Mon, 04 Aug 2014 10:51:10 +0200