[pkg-fgfs-crew] Bug#714260: Helping with flightgear package

[Christopher Baines]

On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 20:55 +0200, Markus Wanner wrote:
> On 07/31/2013 05:24 PM, Markus Wanner wrote:
> > I've pushed upstream/2.10.0 and an update to the debian packaging of it.
> > It's based It's based on your changes. I hope that's okay.
> > 
> > Obviously, it's not of much use without an updated simgear package,
> > which flightgear depends on. I have updates for that ready as well, but
> > am not sure where to push to.
> 
> Just as a heads up: all three are now available on collab-maint and are
> updated to work together to provide FlightGear 2.10:
> 
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/simgear.git
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/flightgear-data.git
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/flightgear.git

Great :)

> I'm still working on it, but it's worth pointing out a few design
> decisions that may be controversial:
> 
>  - I moved the scenery data package back into the base one, as it's
>    too small to matter (< 10 MiB) and didn't disturb terrasync, either.
>  - Split AI data into its own package (ca. 130 MiB)
>  - Consistently renamed fgfs to flightgear (package names)
>  - Renamed simgear to libsimgear, split to match SONAMES
> 
> I'd still like to:
> 
>  - Use debhelper 7 for simgear as well. And get rid of the static
>    variant of that library in libsimgear-dev. It would simplify rules a
>    lot. Anybody opposed to that?
> 
> I envision flightgear-data-base to be a package that's sufficient to run
> flightgear on. No AI, no object models, only the default c172 aircraft.
> 
> (Of course, that currently emits lots of warnings and load errors. I
> hope to be able to get rid of those eventually.)

Now that simgear is up to date, I will have a look at the related
packages that I (supposedly) maintain, as I have probably been
neglecting them. I think both fgrun, and fgo need updating, and it would
be good to Git them (although this is still quite new to me). FGo!
probably wants bringing under team maintenance also?
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