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mxb2001
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Pry about Widelands
 Posted at: 2019-06-05, 18:13

Anyone out there running Debian Stretch (latest version)? I'm wondering if build 20 has already been compiled by someone for deb

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stonerl
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 Posted at: 2019-06-05, 18:31

The Ubuntu ppa should work on Debian...

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GunChleoc
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 Posted at: 2019-06-05, 18:55

Our usual Debian packager didn't have any time for this release, so I opened a bug with Debian asking them to update. I can't find it now though.

Busy indexing nil values

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stdh
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Pry about Widelands
 Posted at: 2019-06-06, 17:09

I'm running Debian testing (Buster, soon to become the new release (10)), but I compile from source if I want to use a new Widelands release or trunk. The bug is at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=928325 . If I understand Debian's release and packaging processes well, this is what needs to happen:

  • Build 20 needs to be packaged;
  • after Buster has been released, this package can move to the testing repository (what will become Bullseye (11));
  • if that works, the package can be backported to Buster;
  • a 'sloppy-backport' can possibly be provided for Stretch (9).
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teppo
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 Posted at: 2019-06-07, 18:03

mxb2001 wrote:

Anyone out there running Debian Stretch (latest version)? I'm wondering if build 20 has already been compiled by someone for deb

Runs fine, on both Stretch and Buster.

stdh wrote:

  • if that works, the package can be backported to Buster;

Yes, that is the correct way.

It would not be overly difficult to build a x86-64 .deb package for buster and self-host that at web page. The correct way happens when it happens, a self-build package could be online tomorrow. And after that, one could of course self-build for stretch, too. And why not do i386, ARM32, ARM64 etc (I guess this is a long list). I am not suggesting this, but if lack of an easy install path is a problem for the tournament or so, there are doors that could be opened.

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