== Debian Games Team BoF == The purpose of the Debian Games Team is to coordinate, share common problems and solutions and to maintain games collaboratively Games team contains everything from actual games to game emulators, gaming utilities. and game engines. Packages are maintained on salsa, debian's git server: https://salsa.debian.org/games-team Packages maintained by games team: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org Website / Wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team IRC Channel: #debian-games on the oftc network Maintstats https://blends.debian.org/games/maintstats/ == Discussion / Questions? == * category for utilities in .desktop files? * backports * sponsorship requests QUESTION: Can you talk a little about packaging games with non-free artwork but free source code and how that relates to the use of contrib and to game downloaders. https://osgameclones.com/ Do I need to be a DM/DD to join the team? How does one go about joining? Is any (free) game welcome to be team-maintained by debian-games-team? I'm upstream, other than licence check and dependency check, what can I do to make packaging easier? https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide What would you consider more (potentially) complicated to package, a game or a library? libraries are more difficult For example Mindustry #959466 ... "and then you need a whole new programming language packaging" Not to derail the discussion, but I've been through that. I was studying a certain software for packaging and ended up going down a rabbit hole of requirements :( Are there objective criteria on splitting binary packages (-data, -extra, etc)? - architecture-independent files should better go into an arch:all package (e.g. -data), and game binaries into an arch:any package - only necessary to split when there's a significant amount of data. It's usually done to reduce install size or archive size. - gaming packages often have a separate headless -server package === RFS === tools: or settings https://mentors.debian.net/package/gbsplay/ https://mentors.debian.net/package/goverlay/ https://mentors.debian.net/package/lutris/ https://mentors.debian.net/package/mangohud/ https://mentors.debian.net/package/vkbasalt/ games: https://mentors.debian.net/package/c-evo/ https://mentors.debian.net/package/endless-sky/ https://mentors.debian.net/package/ironseed/ https://mentors.debian.net/package/pentobi/ https://mentors.debian.net/package/pinball-table-hurd/ (done, thanks yadd) https://mentors.debian.net/package/speed-dreams/ (abandoned by uploader) https://mentors.debian.net/package/starfighter/ https://mentors.debian.net/package/supertuxkart/ (backport) https://mentors.debian.net/package/surgescript/ https://mentors.debian.net/package/zig-game/